top up
Speech parts
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.
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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.
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.
Always plant onion sets with root end down and the pointed top up.
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.
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.
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.