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raise
noun[ C ]
us/reɪz/

raisenoun[C] (SOMETHING BECOMING BIGGER)

an increase in the amount money you earn:
She asked her boss for a raise.

raise | Business English

raise
verb[ T ]
uk /reɪz/us
to increase the amount, level, or quality of something:
The Bank of England was expected to raise the cost of borrowing after higher than expected inflation figures.
raise salaries/prices/taxesThere is increasing pressure on exporters to raise prices in foreign markets.
raise awareness/standards/qualityThe new government is pledging to raise standards in education.
FINANCE
to manage to get money to invest in a business, project, property, etc.:
raise capital/funds/moneyWe will raise funds for reconstruction by disposing of assets.
The share issue in the coffee company aims to raise €5m from investors eager to invest in ethical concerns.
raise a loan/mortgage
to mention something that you are worried or not sure about so that it can be examined and dealt with:
raise concerns/doubts/fearsThe company announced a package of reforms to address concerns raised by shareholders.
raise issues/objections/questions
ACCOUNTING
to prepare an invoice:
The exporter raises an invoice in the usual way on the overseas buyer.
COMMUNICATIONS
to make or arrange a phone call, especially to discuss technical help, business, etc.:
If you have a technical fault, you can raise a call using the in-house system.
raise
noun[ C ]
USuk /reɪz/us(UKrise)
HR
an increase in salary or wages:
A 2% raise for each employee would add $28 million to the overall budget.

Examples of raise

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Problems, then, are raised about the ecological validity of this constraint and the role it might play in the perception of ordinary, everyday motion.
This reduces the costs of financial intermediation and raises the overall return on investment.
In this commentary we raise two issues that we think are directly related to the theory's treatment of mental representations as emulations.
These gains in private technical efficiency raise social costs as the technological resource stock externality is exacerbated.
A telling example-of importance for the study reported below-involves (thematic) verb raising.
This charge is usually raised when minority or immigrant children are taught in a language other than their own.
But this raises precisely the question of what such appeals to nature are supposed to achieve.
The data also raise questions about government stability in majoritarian and proportional systems.
Individual interviews were conducted with two participants to explore themes and issues raised during discussions which they did not attend.
It is not sufficient just to raise agricultural output, however.
The clear lines of electoral accountability created by parliamentary systems also greatly raised the stakes of visible opposition to a national program.
Ownership types require additional annotations to use them, raising issues about their role in programming.
We find greater tip raising before both types of schwa, indicating light \\l\\ before schwa and dark \\l\\ in coda position.
The correlation coefficients between male life expectancy and some of the other control variables in the model raises the risk of multicollinearity.
His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
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