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filter up

filter up verb: of information, knowledge or practice; to move slowly up to other levels of an organisation, or population.

Verb

filter up (third-person singular simple present filters up, present participle filtering up, simple past and past participle filtered up)

  1. (idiomatic) Of information, knowledge or practice; to move slowly up to other levels of an organisation, or population.
    • There are some brilliant new approaches being created at grass-roots level, but it is taking a long time for them to filter up to the larger institutions.

Forms of filter up

third-person singular presentfilters up
present participlefiltering up
past participlefiltered up
pastfiltered up

Questions about filter up

What does filter up mean?
Filter up means of information, knowledge or practice; to move slowly up to other levels of an organisation, or population.
What part of speech is filter up?
Filter up is a verb.
What is the past tense of filter up?
The past tense of filter up is filtered up.

Words near filter up in the dictionary

  1. filter papers
  2. filter tip
  3. filter tips
  4. filter tube
  5. filter tubes
  6. filter up
  7. filter-feeder
  8. filter-feeders
  9. filterabilities
  10. filterability
  11. filterable

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