to upgrade

Examples

• All

• Subsequently, Ankara upgraded its relations with both the Palestinians and Israel to the ambassadorial level.

  Academic text (2000)

• I have to give him credit, and I upgraded him to Uncle Wow.

• I have to give him credit and I upgraded him to Uncle Wow.

• Yeah, I upgraded him since last time.

  StarDog and TurboCat (2019)

• " I've been doing my best to upgrade him, but it's very difficult.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The new Turkish government has reflected this balance in a recent decision to upgrade relations with Israel.

  Academic text (1992)

• Plant staffing was upgraded to ensure that a properly trained operator was on duty at all times.

  Academic text (1998)

• The South Carolina Drought Response Committee upgraded six counties in the upper Savannah basin to severe status.

  Blog text (15)

• By 1979, the Joint Committee was upgraded to ministerial status, signifying an even closer relationship between Taipei and Riyadh.

  Academic text (1993)

• To ease this type of cleanup, HS Die & Engineering Inc. of Grand Rapids, Mich., recently upgraded its machine-tool programming software.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

P

to promote

vsto upgrade

182 2.9

Give someone a higher job or rank

has identical meaning but is defined specifically as moving someone up in rank

E

to elevate

vsto upgrade

• Formal

52 4.4

To give someone a higher job or rank

focuses on job or rank improvement rather than general uses

R

to raise

vsto upgrade

38 2.7

To move someone to a higher job or rank

is about moving someone up in job or social status rather than any rise

B

to bring up

vsto upgrade

3 3.3

Move someone to a higher job or rank

is mainly about moving someone up in job or status rather than other change

S

to spot promote

vsto upgrade

• US

8.1

To give someone a higher job immediately without following normal steps

is the standard move to a higher position without instant bypass

K

to kick upstairs

vsto upgrade

• Informal

7.9

Promote someone to a higher job to move them out of a key role

is a regular upward move without the sidelining or removal motive

Antonyms

D

to demote

37 5.6

To move someone to a lower job or rank because they did not do well

Phrasal Verbs

U

to upgrade to first class

1 4.3

To move into a better, more expensive class on a plane or train

U

to upgrade the RAM

• Specialized

3.4

Put more memory into a computer so it can run more programs

How Senior

to promote

182 2.9

to upgrade

23 3.6

to advance

417 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology