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Definition of Bump up
1. Verb. Increase or raise. "OPEC bumped up the price of oil"
Definition of Bump up
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To increase something suddenly. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bump Up
Literary usage of Bump up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outline of Transportation-Related Requirements for Compliance With the Clean by Amy Stephenson, George B. Dresser (1998)
"bump up to next higher classification Although EPA cannot bump a severe area up
to extreme for failure to attain (as per Section 181(b)(2) of the CAA), ..."
2. Me and Myn by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1907)
"7am not a cigar-coloured Windward Island doctor to know all about such things.
Our future ! The very words made something " bump " up against ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"... until at last I ran bump up against—" master," who pre- sei led himself to my
astonished eyes, mounted on Corporal Dash (a horse of is I had so named), ..."
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