Usually means: Increase effort or improve performance.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word step up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. step up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. step-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. step-up, step-up, step up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. step-up, step up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Step-Up, Step-up, step-up: Wordnik
  6. step-up, 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, step up: Dictionary.com
  11. Step Up (Darin song), Step Up (Drowning Pool song), Step Up (Flamin' Groovies album), Step Up (Original Soundtrack), Step Up (Tower of Power album), Step Up (album), Step Up (film), Step Up (film series), Step Up (franchise), Step Up (song), Step Up, Step up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. step-up, step up: Rhymezone
  13. step-up, step up: FreeDictionary.org
  14. step-up, step up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. step-up, step up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. step-up, step up: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Step-up: bizterms.net
  2. Step up: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Step Up (disambiguation), step up: Legal dictionary
  4. Step-Up, Step Up (disambiguation), Step up: Financial dictionary
  5. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. step up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (step up)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility.

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