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filters up

filters up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filter up.

Meaning of filter up

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.

Questions about filters up

What is filters up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Filters up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filter up.

Words near filters up in the dictionary

  1. filterplate
  2. filterplates
  3. filters
  4. filters down
  5. filters out
  6. filters up
  7. filterset
  8. filtersets
  9. filtertop
  10. filtertops
  11. filterware

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filters up (page history and authors); filter up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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