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 uplift. transitive verb. 1 : to lift up : elevate; especially : to cause (a portion of the earth's surface) to rise above adjacent areas. 2 : to improve the spiritual, social, or intellectual condition of. intransitive verb.