move up

verb moves up · moving up · moved up

1. transitive To promote, put onto a higher level. […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”
2. transitive To raise, put onto a higher place.
3. transitive To put higher on a list.
4. US, transitive To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time. The meeting was moved up to Tuesday.

   Similar: move forward, prepone · Opposite: move back

5. intransitive To be promoted.
6. intransitive To pass to a higher level.
7. intransitive To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place. Can you move up to the next seat so we can sit together, please?

   Similar: move over

8. intransitive To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line). I was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car, and this beast, this conductor, hollered at me, ‘Come on you, move up!’ […] I said, ‘it’s the people ahead of me, who won’t move up,’