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.
Context examples: We ascended the mountain / go up a ladder / The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope. Hypernyms (to ascend is one way to...): go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to ascend): come up; rise; rise up; surface (come to the surface)