0 to spend more time working and earning money, or to get a job that is better paid and more difficult:
1 to increase in amount or speed:
Home ownership has upshifted substantially in response to improvements in the economy.
Over the course of the summer, the show upshifted from its already robust sales.
2 to change to a higher gear when driving, to increase power and speed:
About 41,000 people will downshift, but the number of people choosing to upshift will be roughly the same.
These young people haven't upshifted enough to be able to downshift.
Downshifters want to slow down at work so that they can upshift in other areas of their lives.
Consumer prices rose 0.4% in November, upshifting from a 0.1% increase in October.
If you believe that oil prices have upshifted structurally, the outlook is fairly positive.
The transmission does not automatically upshift.
The manufacturer has identified a potential fault when riders upshift from first to second gear.
I lazily upshifted early in a roundabout and the motorcycle lurched.
