"up to speed" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-up to speed.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} up to speed, {{en-PP}} up to speed
  1. (idiomatic) Fully informed; current. Tags: idiomatic Translations (informed): na bieżąco (Polish), al tanto (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-up_to_speed-en-prep_phrase-3vluA5g6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'informed': 95 5
  2. (idiomatic) Functioning adequately. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-up_to_speed-en-prep_phrase-sLuDngbA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: up to date, on top of
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