moving up

Verb

move up (third-person singular simple present moves up, present participle moving up, simple past and past participle moved up)

1. (transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
   • […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 11, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2018
2. (transitive) To raise, put onto a higher place.
3. (transitive) To put higher on a list.
4. (US, transitive) To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
   • The meeting was moved up to Tuesday.

   Synonyms:

   move forward, prepone

   Antonyms:

   move back

5. (intransitive) To be promoted.
6. (intransitive) To pass to a higher level.

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