top up

verb(tr, adverb) British

to raise the level of (a liquid, powder, etc) in (a container), usually bringing it to the brim of the container: top up the sugar in those bowls
- to increase the benefits from (an insurance scheme), esp to increase a pension when a salary rise enables higher premiums to be paid
- to add money to (a loan, bank account, etc) in order to keep it at a constant or acceptable level

nountop-up

- an amount added to something in order to raise it to or maintain it at a desired level
- (as modifier): a top-up loan; a top-up policy

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How to use top up in a sentence

No one wants to risk the whole show by forcing them to top up their pensions too fast.
Sorry, Folks: One Way or the Other, You'll Never Be Able to Completely Count on Retirement | Megan McArdle | March 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
For the same reason that it hasn't been able to get companies to top up their pensions.
Sorry, Folks: One Way or the Other, You'll Never Be Able to Completely Count on Retirement | Megan McArdle | March 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the market conditions of late 2008, Reserve Primary was too small, and too poor, to top up.
Break Up the Banks? | Megan McArdle | February 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
They need to work to top up the equity they lost in the housing bust - only the work isn't there.
Post-Convention Hangover: America Isn't Working | David Frum | September 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
See how he has torn this old tree top up and gnawed those logs and those trees, he has been past here.
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper | Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock

As the big drive went on and column after column went over the top up to the hemispheres, nobody wasted time on Lee.
The Brain | Alexander Blade
Stacy strolled over to Rector, gravely snipped off the latter's hat and holding it top-up shook the hat vigorously.
The Pony Rider Boys in New England | Frank Gee Patchin
And in the posture of the picture identified as Commission Exhibit 344, is the top up or down?
Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The weather was not settled; now and then there came a sprinkle, but with our top up we did not mind.
The Car That Went Abroad | Albert Bigelow Paine

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