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 ascend. 1  intransitive verb. 2  1a : to move upward the balloon ascendedb : to slope upward The path ascends through the woods. 3  2a : to rise from a lower level or degree ascend to powerb : to go back in time or in order of genealogical succession.  transitive 1  verb. 1 : to go or move up ascend a staircase.