Definitions for raising
rais·ing

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. elevation, lift, raisingnoun

   the event of something being raised upward

   "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"

2. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

   the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

3. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingadjective

   helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

4. raisingadjective

   increasing in quantity or value

   "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. raisingnoun

   Elevation.

2. raisingnoun

   Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity

3. raisingnoun

   Recruitment.

4. raisingnoun

   Collection or gathering, especially of money.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Raising

   of Raise

2. Raisingnoun

   the act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life

3. Raisingnoun

   specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising

4. Raisingnoun

   the operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning

Matched Categories

1. • Rise
   • Upbringing

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'raising' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3823

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'raising' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4698

Anagrams for raising »

1. arising

2. airings

3. air sign

How to pronounce raising?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say raising in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of raising in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of raising in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of raising in a Sentence

1. Texas Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez:

   If you're polling in the low single digits and you're not raising resources, I mean it's clearly a recipe for disaster.

2. Eddy Arriola:

   The old guard still wants heads on the block and Marines on the beach, but they don't seem to have realized that the world had changed, the PACs are raising peanuts compared to the business interests that are lining up.

3. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis:

   If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters.

4. Kathy Lien:

   If payrolls rise less than 200k, we could see a stronger rally in EUR/USD and a steeper decline in USD/JPY because a weak report would lead investors to think that the Federal Reserve will be more patient with raising interest rates, a stronger report however would be extremely positive for the greenback by hardening expectations for a 2015 rate increase.

5. Johanna Satekge:

   It was hard to be diagnosed at that time. You used to see just images of skeletal people, my niece, who I was raising, would sometimes come home from primary school, crying: 'How is mama HIV positive? Is she going to die?'.

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