Definition of "raising"

present participle and gerund of raise  examples

Elevation.  examples

Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity  examples

Recruitment.  examples

Collection or gathering, especially of money.  examples

(US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.  examples

(linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.  examples

(linguistics, phonetics) 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.  examples

The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.  examples

The substance used to make bread rise.  examples

The process of deepening colours in dyeing.  examples