0 present participle of up informal
Tightening medical eligibility criteria for disability pensions or upping the ante on the number of years of prior employment and\or contributions is somewhat short-sighted.
Pain needs to be treated, but upping dosages only for terminal restlessness may backfire.
I do not believe that they would have the face to give another "upping", although they have the power.
That would therefore be another reason for "upping" the amount that should be paid in this particular set of cases.
Those increases came as the result of odd things like a whole lot of building societies coming into a small town, thereby upping the value.
I do not believe that upping the penalty points will save any lives.
Now we are upping the pace of modernisation.
It is nonsense to imagine that we would help to resolve the conflict by upping the scale of military hardware.
