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on the upgrade Definition


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upgrade
verb
    1. To promote someone.
    2. To increase the grade or status of (a job or post).
    3. To improve the quality of (machinery, equipment, a computer or its memory, etc), especially by adding or replacing features, components, etc.
      Thesaurus: improve, enhance, make better, advance.
noun
    (N Amer)
    1. An upward slope; an incline.
    2. An act or the process of upgrading something.
    3. An upgraded version of something, eg a piece of machinery or equipment.
    4. A thing that upgrades something, eg an additional feature, etc.
adverb
    (N Amer)
    1. Uphill.
Idiom: on the upgrade
    Rising.
    Improving or getting better.
Etymology: 19c: originally US.



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