raising
adjective
- 1
increasing in quantity or value
a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate
noun
- 1
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
- 2
the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- 3
the event of something being raised upward
an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
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