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See Also:

• present participle of raise.

raising

American  

[rey-zing] / ˈreɪ zɪŋ /

noun

Linguistics.

1. a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.

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raising British  

/ ˈreɪzɪŋ /

noun

1. transformational grammar a rule that moves a constituent from an embedded clause into the main clause See also subject-raising negative-raising

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-raising
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of raising

raise + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Some took exception to the Raising the Colours campaign last summer when English and Union flags appeared on motorway bridges.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Raising $75 billion by selling 600 million shares at $130 each would give SpaceX about 13.5 billion shares and value the company at $1.75 trillion.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Raising rates would be a dramatic shift for the Fed.

From MarketWatch • May 30, 2026

Raising questions about who should have been included, the coach said, necessarily leads to questions about who should have been left off.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

And she knew things about him too, like that he didn’t have a favorite actor, his favorite movie was Raising Arizona, and his favorite band was, of course, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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