15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour! On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation.
ascent - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); the car couldn't make it up the rise. acclivity, climb, upgrade, raise, rise. incline, slope, side - an elevated geological formation; he climbed the steep slope; the house was built on the side of a mountain.
Meaning: A movement upward. Classified under: Nouns denoting natural events. Synonyms: rising; ascension; ascent; rise. Context example: they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon. Hypernyms (rise is a kind of...): change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of rise):