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.
verb. 1  To take care of and educate (a child): bring up, raise. See care for. 2  To raise upright: erect, pitch, put up, raise, set up, upraise, uprear. See horizontal, rise. 3  To move (something) to a higher position: boost, elevate, heave, hoist, lift, pick up, raise, take up, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear. See rise.