keep up with the demand

Meaning

This expression means to produce or supply enough goods, services, or work to satisfy the needs and requests of customers or clients. It is commonly used in supply chain, manufacturing, and general business operations.

Examples

• Our factory is working overtime to keep up with the demand for the new product.

  Our factory is working overtime to keep up with the demand for the new product.

• Small businesses often struggle to keep up with the demand during the holiday season.

  Small businesses often struggle to keep up with the demand during the holiday season.

• We hired three new developers to help keep up with the demand for software updates.

  We hired three new developers to help keep up with the demand for software updates.

• If we don't increase production, we won't be able to keep up with the demand.

  If we don't increase production, we won't be able to keep up with the demand.

• The restaurant had to hire more staff to keep up with the demand on weekends.

  The restaurant had to hire more staff to keep up with the demand on weekends.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to keep up the demand of our customers.

  ✓ We need to keep up with the demand of our customers.

  The complete phrasal verb phrase is 'keep up with'. Leaving out 'with' changes the meaning or makes the sentence grammatically incorrect.

• ✗ The company cannot keep with the high demand.

  ✓ The company cannot keep up with the high demand.

  You must include the adverb 'up' in the phrase 'keep up with' to convey the meaning of maintaining the same pace or level.

Related Expressions

Practice

• The online store crashed because they couldn't ___ during the flash sale.

  💡 satisfy the high volume of customer requests

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  keep up with the demand

• To ___, we have doubled our monthly production targets.

  💡 stay level with customer orders

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  keep up with the demand