Definition of "speedup" []

• An increase in speed; acceleration. (noun)
• A required acceleration of work or production without an increase in pay. (noun)

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• "Has it dawned on Friedman that this kind of speedup, which is reflected in so many aspects of modern life including the stock market, may be a source of our deeper woes?"
• "The speedup is the latest move in a tumultuous legislative session that followed last fall's midterm elections in which Republicans won the governorship and control of both chambers of the Legislature."
• "One of the most important issues today, even more important than wages to the workers, to our struggling with something we never heard of, is automation, are the work rules, the kind of speedup that there is today with automation is entirely different from the speedups that we knew in the old day."