Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ship-building, the act of marking by the edges of molds any figure upon timber, etc., with a rasing-knife, or with the points of compasses.

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  • verb Present participle of rase.

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Examples

  • I don't have to WORK "aspects are probably wise, by leaving you are actually passing up the opportunity to gain status in the town through longevity, community involvement and long term human connections such as rasing a family and whatever.

    Ask MetaFilter 2010

  • Stock analysts have remained upbeat, rasing earnings forecasts even as the economy has slowed.

    What's News: Business & Finance 2011

  • Dems can't take out the PUBLIC OPTION!!!! as the Insurance companies will make the Dem's look bad by rasing insurance rates – the old – "I Told You So Routine"

    Senate Dems suggest they're open to altering health care bill 2009

  • Stock analysts have remained upbeat, rasing earnings forecasts even as the economy has slowed.

    What's News: Business & Finance 2011

  • Well seeing as how both of our beloved political parties are so well versed at rasing money!

    NRSC, DSCC both claim October cash victory 2009

  • Just in time, too: Euro-zone leaders are meeting in Brussels this week with a view toward creating a "Pact for the Euro," a set of reforms that include abolishing the automatic indexation of wages to inflation, rasing pension ages across Europe, harmonizing the corporate tax base if not yet the rates, and establishing some mechanism for controlling government debt levels in a legally binding way.

    And Now Portugal 2011

  • Be patient 12 in months you'll all be calling Obama a GENIUS right intime for him to start rasing money for re election.

    McCain: Obama was wrong on stimulus either then or now 2009

  • I do agree that education is the starting point, and that is why I am rasing my children to be critical thinkers.

    Inauguration 1-20-09 2009

  • There is no way this can be all payed for without rasing taxes on someone.

    Obama insists requiring health insurance is not a tax increase 2009

  • The deal is India's first big capital-rasing in 2011.

    What's News 2011

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