"filter up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-filter up.ogg [Australia] Forms: filters up [present, singular, third-person], filtering up [participle, present], filtered up [participle, past], filtered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-filter_up-en-verb-TM0DfwM5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for filter up meaning in English (1.8kB)

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