move up
English
Verb
move up (third-person singular simple present moves up, present participle moving up, simple past and past participle moved up)
- (transitive) To put (something) higher or further.
- (transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
- 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, 2018, Chapter 11,
- […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”
- 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 10, p. 61,
- We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought we country children would make our classmates feel inferior―and we did.
- 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, 2018, Chapter 11,
- (transitive) To raise, put onto a higher place.
- (transitive) To put higher on a list.
- (transitive) To promote, put onto a higher level.
- (transitive, US) To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
- Synonym: move forward
- Antonym: move back
- The meeting was moved up to Tuesday.
- 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, Penguin, Chapter 3, p. 108,
- “She’s upset she has to walk me down the aisle,” Serena told Maggie.
- “Oh if only your uncle Maynard would come and do it instead!” Anita cried. “Maybe we should move the wedding up a week and give him another chance […] ”
- (intransitive) To move higher.
- To be promoted.
- To pass to a higher level.
- (intransitive) To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
- Synonym: move over
- Can you move up to the next seat so we can sit together, please?
- 2020 June 3, Philip Haigh, “Who can clean up Manchester's mess?”, in Rail, page 43:
- "It's hard to articulate how tightly packed we have become accustomed to - [...] 'Move up, we need to get one more in.' The only picture I can paint is that it is often not possible to reach into my jacket pocket to retrieve my mobile phone, because I cannot raise my arms. Sardines enjoy more space."
- (intransitive) To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 844076792, page 135:
- I was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car, and this beast, this conductor, hollered at me, ‘Come on you, move up!’ […] I said, ‘it’s the people ahead of me, who won’t move up,’
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Derived terms
- move out to move up
- move up in the world
- piggy move up