raising

noun11

1. •
   Elevation.
2. •
   Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
3. •
   Recruitment.
4. •
   Collection or gathering, especially of money.
5. •
   The action of placing something at a higher level.

   • Contracts for the raising of 16 other bridges have been let. — 1957
6. •
   The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
7. •
   A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
8. •
   (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
9. •
   The substance used to make bread rise.
10. •
    The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
11. •
    The process of deepening colours in dyeing.