phrasal verb · neutral
bring up to speed
UK/brɪŋ ʌp tuː ˈspiːd/US/brɪŋ ʌp tu ˈspiːd/BRING·up·to·SPEED
to make someone have the latest information or reach the required level of knowledge or skill
Examples
“Let me bring you up to speed on the project's current priorities.”
“After a week of training, the intern was finally brought up to speed.”
“Can you bring the new volunteers up to speed before Monday?”
Band 8 sentence
“By the end of the induction programme she had successfully brought every new team member up to speed on the organisation's processes and software.”
Collocations
- bring someone up to speed on something
- quickly/briefly bring someone up to speed
Word family
Common mistakes
bring someone speed up→bring someone up to speed
bring up to date→bring up to speed
Say it for a higher band
5update→6inform→7+bring up to speed
Synonyms
update
inform
Easily confused
bring up to date
“Please bring me up to date on what we discussed last week.”
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