Usually means: Increasing the level or amount.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word raising:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. raising: Merriam-Webster
  2. raising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. raising: Collins English Dictionary
  4. raising: Vocabulary.com
  5. Raising, raising: Wordnik
  6. raising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. raising: Wiktionary
  8. raising: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Raising, raising: Dictionary.com
  10. raising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Raising (linguistics), Raising (metalworking), Raising (phonetics), Raising (phonology), Raising: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Raising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. raising: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. raising: Rhymezone
  15. Raising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. raising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. RAISING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. raising: FreeDictionary.org
  19. raising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. raising: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. raising: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raising: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raising: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raising: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raising: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. raising: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (raising)

noun:  Elevation.
noun:  Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
noun:  Recruitment.
noun:  Collection or gathering, especially of money.
noun:  (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
noun:  (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
noun:  (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
noun:  The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
noun:  The substance used to make bread rise.
noun:  The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

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