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Definition of Ramp up

1. Verb. Bolster or strengthen. "Ramp up security in the airports"

Definition of Ramp up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To increase rapidly to a new value. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To increase (something) rapidly to a new value; to cause (something) to ramp up. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To start up; to be in an initial phase of rapid increase. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive management) To start (something) up; to cause (something) to ramp up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramp Up

Literary usage of Ramp up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Optimising Russian Natural Gas: Reform And Climate Policy by Isabel Murray, Alexandrina Platonova-Oquab, International Energy Agency (2006)
"More importantly, will Turkmenistan be able to ramp up production to 70-80 bcm quickly enough, given current production rates of about half this volume? ..."

2. Nuclear Waste: Uncertainties About Opening Waste Isolation Pilot Plant by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"This report has failed to recognize that the ramp-up to full WIPP operations ... DOE has scoped a ramp-up process that meets the resource needs of the DOE ..."

3. Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices by Ralph Fletcher (2006)
"Like the word grandstanding, glorify is a "ramp-up" word. ... Many of us may use ramp-up words or expressions without being aware of it. ..."

4. Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review by William S. Cohen (1997)
"Consistent with this decision, we are slowing our ramp-up to full production ... The ramp up to the full production rate of 48 per year will be delayed two ..."

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