upthrust. 1  a thrust in an upward direction. 2  a sudden and forceful upward movement, as of a nation's economy or the stock market: Market observers are hoping the upthrust can be sustained. 3  Geology. an upheaval. 4  to thrust upward: Frost caused the ground to upthrust.
Talk about unequal pay: The most a WNBA player can make in a season is $105,000. The Atlanta Hawks' Joe Johnson this season will make more than $272,000 -- per game. Agent Bruce Levy said players can add to the average $72,000 WNBA salary by playing overseas, where a typical seven-month contract starts at $40,000.
Marta, who's been called the female Pele, played in Sweden, not the National Women's Soccer League, which is the third attempt at a North American professional women's soccer league since 1999. The NWSL executive director Cheryl Bailey said in 2013 that players' salaries range from $6,000 to $30,000. The barebones salaries of women's soccer seem omnipresent throughout the sport. U.S. women's national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe left to play professionally in France.