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What does speed up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word speed up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To accelerate; to increase speed.
  2. (transitive) To increase the speed of something; to make something go faster.
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He said the package would include more aggressive measures to speed up bad debt write-offs and stabilize the banking system.
However warm or cold we are to the general idea of the EU, nothing we decide just now will slow or speed up its political momentum.
The lane is intended to speed up travelling times for vehicles carrying the bulk of commuters.
Oh who am I kidding, the thought of riding wasn't the only thing that was causing my heart rate to speed up.
She called on the government to speed up the process of release for hundreds of political prisoners still in jail.
On Friday, the council voted to speed up planning for a UN peacekeeping force to be sent to Darfur to relieve underfinanced African Union troops.

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