move up

Meanings

verbmove up (third-person singular simple present moves up, present participle moving up, simple past and past participle moved up)

present singular third person moves up · participle present moving up · participle past moved up · past moved up

To put (something) higher or further.
1. transitiveTo promote, put onto a higher level.
  […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”
  1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 11, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2018
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  We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought we country children would make our classmates feel inferior―and we did.
  1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 61
2. transitiveTo raise, put onto a higher place.
3. transitiveTo put higher on a list.
UStransitiveTo reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
The meeting was moved up to Tuesday.
1 more example
“She’s upset she has to walk me down the aisle,” Serena told Maggie. “Oh if only your uncle Maynard would come and do it instead!” Anita cried. “Maybe we should move the wedding up a week and give him another chance […]”
1988, Anne Tyler, chapter 3, in Breathing Lessons, Penguin, page 108
Synonyms: move forward, prepone · Antonyms: move back
To move higher.
1. intransitiveTo be promoted.
2. intransitiveTo pass to a higher level.
intransitiveTo move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
Can you move up to the next seat so we can sit together, please?
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"It's hard to articulate how tightly packed we have become accustomed to - [...] 'Move up, we need to get one more in.' The only picture I can paint is that it is often not possible to reach into my jacket pocket to retrieve my mobile phone, because I cannot raise my arms. Sardines enjoy more space."
2020 June 3, Philip Haigh, “Who can clean up Manchester's mess?”, in Rail, page 43
Synonyms: move over
intransitiveTo move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
I was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car, and this beast, this conductor, hollered at me, ‘Come on you, move up!’ […] I said, ‘it’s the people ahead of me, who won’t move up,’
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter X, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 135