Usually means: Increase in salary or position.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. raise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. raise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. raise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. raise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. raise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Raise, raise: Wordnik
  7. raise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. raise: Wiktionary
  9. raise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. raise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. raise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Raise, raise: Dictionary.com
  13. raise (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. raise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Raise (Lake District), Raise (album), Raise (mining), Raise, Raise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Raise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. raise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. raise: Rhymezone
  19. raise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. raise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. raise: Free Dictionary
  22. raise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. raise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. raise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Raise (disambiguation), raise: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RAISE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Raise (disambiguation), raise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. RAISE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. raise: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. raise, raise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Raise: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. raise: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Raise: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Raise: Gambling Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
verb:  To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
verb:  To cause something to come to the surface of water.
verb:  (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
verb:  To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
verb:  (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
verb:  (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
verb:  (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
verb:  (metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
verb:  (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
verb:  To collect or amass.
verb:  (obsolete) To call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.
verb:  To bring up; to grow.
verb:  To promote.
verb:  To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
verb:  (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
verb:  To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
verb:  To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
verb:  (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
verb:  (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
verb:  (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
verb:  (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
verb:  To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
verb:  (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
verb:  (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
noun:  (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
noun:  (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
noun:  (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
noun:  (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
noun:  A cairn or pile of stones.
noun:  (US) Ellipsis of pay raise.: an increase in wages or salary.

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