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.
noun. 1  1usually in singular A climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill. âthe first ascent of the Matterhornâ. 2  2usually in singular An instance of rising or moving up through the air. âthe first balloon ascent was in 1783â.