vation, safekeeping; sustenance, sustainment, subsistence, support, keep.
2. operating costs, costs, outlay, running expenses, expenses, overhead,
uplift, v. 1. raise, upraise, rear, elevate, erect; lift, hoist, heave, upheave.
2. improve, better, meliorate, ameliorate, mend, amend; enrich, enhance, further, foster; rehabilitate, restore, refurbish, upgrade.
3. exalt, ennoble, dignify, promote; glorify, beatify, canonize, deify, apotheosize, put on a pedestal. -n. 4. elevation, upheaval, erection, rearing, raising, lifting.
5. betterment, improvement, melioration, amelioration, amendment; enrichment, enhancement; edification, enlightenment, education; civilization, cultivation; advancement, furtherance; rehabilitation.
6. exaltation, ennoblement, promotion; glorification, beatification, canonization, deification, apotheosis.
upper, adj. 1. higher, loftier, more elevated; ahead, over, above.
2. superior, greater, ranking; surpassing, exceeding, transcendent, preeminent, supreme, ascendant, predominant.
upper-class, adj. aristocratic, patrician, blue-blooded, silk-stocking; noble, highborn, well-born, gentle, genteel, well-bred; above-average, superior, topflight, first-rate, Inf. topnotch; high-level, top-drawer; high-class, elegant, fancy, luxurious, deluxe, sumptuous, posh, Inf. swank, Inf. swanky, Sl. ritzy,
upper hand, n. the whip hand, the driver's seat, advantage, Inf. edge, the catbird seat; control, command, rule, mastery, domination, dominance; power, authority, influence, sway; ascendancy, primacy, superiority, supremacy, sovereignty,
uppermost, adj. 1. upmost, highest, loftiest, most elevated.
2. greatest, best, topmost, Inf. tiptop, apical, culminant, comsummate, maximum, ultimate; paramount, surpreme, transcendent, preeminent, superior, surpassing, exceeding, ascendant; predominant, dominant, leading, top, foremost, principal, main, major, cardinal, prime, primary, chief, sovereign, head, headmost.
upright, adj. 1. erect, bolt upright, stright-up, stright up and down, up and down; vertical, plumb, perpendicular, Math, normal; standing, standing-up, stand-up, rearing, Heraldry, rampant; upraised, upreared, uplifted, upended.
2. honest, upstanding, incorruptible, uncorrupt, uncorrupted; ethical, moral, principled, high-principled, high-minded, noble-minded; virtuous, righteous, up-righteous, right, good, decent, clean; honorable, reputable, creditable, estimable, noble, worthy, sterling; law-abiding, law-loving, stright-arrow.
3. just, fair, impartial, equitable, objective, balanced, even, even-handed, Inf. level; straight, square, fair and square, foursquare, square-dealing, plain-dealing, square-shooting, straight-shooting; rightful, proper, right and proper, fit; aboveboard, open and aboveboard, out front, up front, on the level, up and up, on the up and up. -n. 4. pole, post, prop, column, pillar, shaft, stanchion; newel, newel post, banister, baluster, Carpentry, Furniture, stile; pier, pile, piling. -adv. 5. erectly, vertically, uprightly, upstandingly, up; perpendicularly, plumb, up and down, stright up and down; bolt upright, at attention, on one's feet or legs, Inf. on one's hind legs; endwise, endways, on end.
