Definition of Move up

1. Verb. Move to a better position in life or to a better job. "Sam and Sue move up"; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great"

Exact synonyms: Ascend, Rise
Generic synonyms: Change

2. Verb. Move upward. "The mist uprose from the meadows"
Exact synonyms: Arise, Come Up, Go Up, Lift, Rise, Uprise
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Scend, Surge, Climb, Climb Up, Go Up, Mount, Soar, Soar Up, Soar Upwards, Surge, Zoom, Go Up, Rocket, Skyrocket, Bubble, Uplift, Chandelle, Steam, Ascend, Come Up, Rise, Uprise
Derivative terms: Lift, Rise, Rise, Rising
Antonyms: Fall
Also: Rise Up

Definition of Move up

1. Verb. (transitive) to put something higher or further. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) to move higher ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to move one's position to allow others to occupy a place. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Move Up

move house
move in
move in on
move into
move involuntarily
move it
move on
move one's body
move out
move over
move reflexively
move the goal posts
move the goalposts
move the yardsticks
move through the gears
move up (current term)
moveable
moveable feast
moveables
moveably
moved
moved(p)
moved the yardsticks
moveless
movelessly
movelessness
movelessnesses
movely
movement
movement-related pain

Literary usage of Move up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The First brigade, Colonel CF Ronald, Fourth Virginia regiment, commanding, was ordered, as I was informed, to move up as a reserve. Lieutenant-General. ..."

2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"... of diameters varying from 14 to 30 inches, though sometime« in five parts, and by the arrangement of universal joints, each part will move up or down, ..."

3. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"How the Isothermal Lines move ,up and down the Ocean, 498.—A Line of invariable Temperature, 508.—How the western Half of the Atlantic is heated up, 509. ..."

4. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"Bochart compares l_>iXj£ to move up and down in the air; but this is secondary.—Hence also once Gen. 30,20, to give, to present with any thing, to endow, ..."

5. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society, Albert Bigelow, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1909)
"THE move up-TOWN—THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. On January 20, 1876, the building adjoining the Board of Trade was burned and the Board of Trade quarters were ..."

6. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1896)
"... Schenck, Schermerhorn, and Ray move up-town—Peter Bayard the epicurean—Turtle soup and port—Miss Mann's boarding-house—:Her guests—The City Hotel—Its ..."

7. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... Schenck, Schermerhorn, and Ray move up-town—Peter Bayard the epicurean—Turtle soup and port—Miss Mann's boarding-house—Her guests—The City Hotel—Its ..."

8. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The First brigade, Colonel CF Ronald, Fourth Virginia regiment, commanding, was ordered, as I was informed, to move up as a reserve. Lieutenant-General. ..."

9. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1860)
"... of diameters varying from 14 to 30 inches, though sometime« in five parts, and by the arrangement of universal joints, each part will move up or down, ..."

10. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"How the Isothermal Lines move ,up and down the Ocean, 498.—A Line of invariable Temperature, 508.—How the western Half of the Atlantic is heated up, 509. ..."

11. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"Bochart compares l_>iXj£ to move up and down in the air; but this is secondary.—Hence also once Gen. 30,20, to give, to present with any thing, to endow, ..."

12. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society, Albert Bigelow, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1909)
"THE move up-TOWN—THE MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. On January 20, 1876, the building adjoining the Board of Trade was burned and the Board of Trade quarters were ..."

13. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1896)
"... Schenck, Schermerhorn, and Ray move up-town—Peter Bayard the epicurean—Turtle soup and port—Miss Mann's boarding-house—:Her guests—The City Hotel—Its ..."

14. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... Schenck, Schermerhorn, and Ray move up-town—Peter Bayard the epicurean—Turtle soup and port—Miss Mann's boarding-house—Her guests—The City Hotel—Its ..."

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