15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour! On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation.
ascent - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. acclivity, climb, upgrade, raise, rise. incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; he climbed the steep slope; the house was built on the side of a mountain.
Definition of lift. 1  transitive verb. 2  1a : to raise from a lower to a higher position : elevateb : to raise in rank or conditionc : to raise in rate or amount. 3  2 : to put an end to (a blockade or siege) by withdrawing or causing the withdrawal of investing forces. 4  3 : revoke, rescind lift an embargo.