Usually means: Increase in responsibility or position.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word step-up:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. step-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. step-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. step-up, step-up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. step-up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Step-Up, Step-up, step-up: Wordnik
  6. step-up: Wiktionary
  7. step-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. step-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. step-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. step-up: Dictionary.com
  11. step-up: Rhymezone
  12. step-up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. step-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. step-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Step-up: bizterms.net
  2. Step-Up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step-up: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (step-up)

adjective:  That increases in stages.
adjective:  (of a transformer etc) That increases a voltage.
noun:  (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
noun:  An increase.

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