raising
Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
Example
“cattle raising”
Other meanings
Collection or gathering, especially of money.
The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
Related words
- barnraising
- childraising
- cropraising
- fundraising
- hellraising
- houseraising
- stockraising
Word history
From Middle English "reysynge".
Where this comes from
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