speed-upn.

Etymology: < verbal phrase to speed up: see speed v. 11d.

a. The act or process of increasing the speed or working rate of a thing. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > increasing rate of movement or progress

acceleration1490

speeding1892

speed-up1923

welly1979

1923 Daily Mail 3 Mar. 7 Train Speed-up..The speeding up of all services.

1923 Daily Mail 12 June 6 Railway speed-up. Next month will see a general speeding-up of British railways.

1944 Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 18/6 (heading) Assembly speedup law is planned.

1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action i. 33 With a hundred-thousand-fold speed-up [of film]..the overall processes of evolution became visible.

1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 158 I too in the end will see the things like this, Whatever I've lived assumed in one bright glance Like speed-up reading.

1977 P. Somerville-Large Eagles near Carcase v. 102 ‘Go on,’ I said, ‘not too fast.’.. The last thing I wanted was a speed-up.

b. The act or process of increasing productivity, esp. without raising rates of pay. Originally and chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > other methods or systems

Sisyphism1846

concentration1848

sweating system1851

mutualization1904

functionalization1912

spread-over1919

taipanism1921

Taylorism1928

Taylorization1929

unitization1929

stretch-out1933

speed-up1935

Stakhanovism1936

corporatization1949

suboptimization1950

quality management1953

matrix management1959

customization1967

divisionalization1967

knowledge management1971

just-in-time1977

kanban system1977

intrapreneurialism1982

kaizen1985

hot-desking1991

hotelling1991

1935 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Feb. 2/1 Labor unrest..flows from..inequitable hiring and rehiring methods, espionage, speed-up and displacement of workers at an extremely early age.

1938 Reader's Digest May 55/2 There is no piecework, no speedup.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 14 June 10/7 The extreme manifestation of management is the ruthless speedup or stretch-out, where production is increased without thought of the health of the working~man.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 184 The productive speed-up tends to be replaced by..‘feather-bedding’.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River xxxi. 235 In 1955, for example, the Workers Daily revealed that alleged gains made in ‘speed-up’ drives by shocking over-use of labor were more than offset by heavily increased losses in man-power output.

1974 Time Out 22 Nov. 64/3 It's a depressing and probably accurate picture of a failure of consciousness in a barely unionised community where speed-ups, piece-work and cheap labour are rife.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	speed-up
释义	speed-upn. Etymology: < verbal phrase to speed up: see speed v. 11d. a. The act or process of increasing the speed or working rate of a thing. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > increasing rate of movement or progress acceleration1490 speeding1892 speed-up1923 welly1979 1923 Daily Mail 3 Mar. 7 Train Speed-up..The speeding up of all services. 1923 Daily Mail 12 June 6 Railway speed-up. Next month will see a general speeding-up of British railways. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 18/6 (heading) Assembly speedup law is planned. 1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action i. 33 With a hundred-thousand-fold speed-up [of film]..the overall processes of evolution became visible. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 158 I too in the end will see the things like this, Whatever I've lived assumed in one bright glance Like speed-up reading. 1977 P. Somerville-Large Eagles near Carcase v. 102 ‘Go on,’ I said, ‘not too fast.’.. The last thing I wanted was a speed-up. b. The act or process of increasing productivity, esp. without raising rates of pay. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > other methods or systems Sisyphism1846 concentration1848 sweating system1851 mutualization1904 functionalization1912 spread-over1919 taipanism1921 Taylorism1928 Taylorization1929 unitization1929 stretch-out1933 speed-up1935 Stakhanovism1936 corporatization1949 suboptimization1950 quality management1953 matrix management1959 customization1967 divisionalization1967 knowledge management1971 just-in-time1977 kanban system1977 intrapreneurialism1982 kaizen1985 hot-desking1991 hotelling1991 1935 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Feb. 2/1 Labor unrest..flows from..inequitable hiring and rehiring methods, espionage, speed-up and displacement of workers at an extremely early age. 1938 Reader's Digest May 55/2 There is no piecework, no speedup. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 14 June 10/7 The extreme manifestation of management is the ruthless speedup or stretch-out, where production is increased without thought of the health of the working~man. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 184 The productive speed-up tends to be replaced by..‘feather-bedding’. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River xxxi. 235 In 1955, for example, the Workers Daily revealed that alleged gains made in ‘speed-up’ drives by shocking over-use of labor were more than offset by heavily increased losses in man-power output. 1974 Time Out 22 Nov. 64/3 It's a depressing and probably accurate picture of a failure of consciousness in a barely unionised community where speed-ups, piece-work and cheap labour are rife. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1923
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