tool up
verb
tooled up; tooling up; tools up
: to provide (a factory) with machines and tools for producing something
The factory was not tooled up for this type of production.
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For-average bat with plus defensive tools up the middle. —
Matthew Davis, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), as it’s called now, is tooling up to become the only advanced packaging plant in the world that is dedicated to 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI)—the stacking of chips made of multiple materials, both silicon and non-silicon. —IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025 Smith said that the initial goal is to get the tool up and running and then focus on expanding the work by not only looking at events that cost over $1 billion in damages but also smaller and medium-sized events. —Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025 Liverpool are remodelling their team, Arsenal are still tooling up for a fourth crack at glory, and the Chelsea project made a leap to win the Club World Cup. —Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Davis, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE), as it’s called now, is tooling up to become the only advanced packaging plant in the world that is dedicated to 3D heterogeneous integration (3DHI)—the stacking of chips made of multiple materials, both silicon and non-silicon. —IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2025 Smith said that the initial goal is to get the tool up and running and then focus on expanding the work by not only looking at events that cost over $1 billion in damages but also smaller and medium-sized events. —Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025 Liverpool are remodelling their team, Arsenal are still tooling up for a fourth crack at glory, and the Chelsea project made a leap to win the Club World Cup. —Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Tool up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/tool%20up. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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