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move up

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.12 sec.
move someone or something up
to cause someone or something to go higher or more forward. She is too far down. Move her up one step. Would you move the sofa up a little? It is too far back.
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move someone up

to advance or promote someone. We are ready to move you up. You have been doing quite well. It will be years before they move up the new people.
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move up (to something)

to advance to something; to purchase a better quality of something. We are moving up to a larger car. There are too many of us now for a small house. We are moving up.
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We did not move up the mountain, but around it, hoping to strike across the old trail.
 
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