top-up
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top-up
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- That serves as an addition English university students will have to pay top-up fees.
noun top-ups
- An addition. Energy will be generated from solar panels, water will be recycled and extracted from soil and the astronauts will grow their own food - they will also have an emergency ration and regular top-ups as new explorers join every two years.
- A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass.
- 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.
- A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia The reinforcement of anesthesia by an epidural “top-up” in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may be explained by a dual mechanism: a volume effect compressing the dural sac and a local anesthetic effect.
- 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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adj additional
| Русский | доба́вочный dobávočnyj, дополни́тельный dopolnítelʹnyj |
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Talk about this word "top-up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/top-up. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. top-up. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/top-up "top-up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/top-up.
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@misc{top_up_2026,
title = {top-up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/top-up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
