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top up

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1. top up - Noun

2. top up - Adjective

3. top up - Verb

Meaning

An addition.

to refill (or recharge) something
I shall top up with petrol before the long trip.
The waitress topped up my coffee every few minutes.

(UK) to refill the drink of (somebody)
May I top you up?

(idiomatic) to extend the credit of something
I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket.
Users can top up their wallet balance and start sending and receiving money between mobile phones.

to add to a number or amount, to bring something up to a certain level

(transitive, intransitive, slang) To have sex (with).
We had dinner, went back to her place, and started topping up.

top-up (not comparable)

That serves as an addition
English university students will have to pay top-up fees.

A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass.

(insurance) An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values.

Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone.
I added a $20 top-up on my cellphone's data plan.

(medicine) A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia

(education) The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal. Nicole Richie

According to the RAC: 'Gears are invariably automatic, while regenerative brakes slow the car when you lift off the accelerator to top-up the batteries. Source: Internet

Always plant onion sets with root end down and the pointed top up. Source: Internet

After the district winners have been determined, sufficient candidates from each party list are elected to "top-up" each party to the overall number of parliamentary seats due to it according to its overall list vote. Source: Internet

For a 50kWh battery that means £7 for a full top-up, but you can get it much cheaper by using off-peak or specialist EV tariffs, so it’s not hard to keep the cost of a 50kWh battery charge to under £3. Source: Internet

Adrienne South, press secretary for Alberta Labour and Immigration Minister Jason Copping, said the provincial government on Friday submitted its second formal proposal for the top-up payment program. Source: Internet

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