Usually means: Make current; improve or revise.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word update:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. update: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. update: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. update: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. update: Collins English Dictionary
  5. update: Vocabulary.com
  6. Update, update: Wordnik
  7. update: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. update: Wiktionary
  9. update: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. update: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. update: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. update: Dictionary.com
  13. update (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. update: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. UPDATE, Update (Berlin Jazz Orchestra), Update (SQL), Update (Yandel album), Update: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. update: Rhymezone
  17. update: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. update: Free Dictionary
  19. update: ESL Idiom Page
  20. update: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. update: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. update: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. update: CCI Computer
  2. Update: Database Glossary
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. update: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. update: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. update: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. update: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
noun:  A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
noun:  An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information.
noun:  A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
noun:  A version of something which is newer than other versions.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (a thing) up to date.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.

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