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up to speed

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Fully informed

    Fully informed; current.

    • Is Mary up to speed on the situation in Kuala Lumpur?
    • And I don't happen to recollect whether I did bring her up to speed on what Bert was asking for and so forth.

  2. Functioning adequately.

    • It may take the new hires a week or two to be brought up to speed on the system.
    • IBM has begun a program to better educate its sales force, Reiswig said, but admits it could take as long as six months to bring them up to speed.
    • It takes time after the anesthesia for the muscles to get up to speed, so your stomach and intestines may not be functioning normally yet and you won’t be able to eat.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for up to speed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA