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Guatemala’s ambassador to the United States was in touch with the Trump transition team, officials said, but members of the incoming administration had not communicated specific plans around a ramp-up in deportations, or how Guatemala should prepare. Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 Early on, stocks received a boost from a Bloomberg News report that said members of Trump’s incoming economic team are considering a slow ramp-up of tariffs, preferring a month-by-month basis. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025 Barron’s reported Benchmark analyst Cody Acree wrote investors were looking for more concrete progress updates on the ramp-up of Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips and its next-generation GPU platform, Rubin. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 Writing job descriptions, coordinating with internal stakeholders and scheduling interviews require a ramp-up period. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for ramp-up 

Word History

Etymology

derivative of the phrasal verb ramp up — more at ramp entry 2

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ramp-up was in 1980

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“Ramp-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ramp-up. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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