Meaning

3 senses
  1. An upward grade or slope.

    an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

  2. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.

    Near-synonym: option

    With my phone company, I get a free upgrade every twelve months if I keep topping up 10 pounds a month.

    Upgrade

    модерниза́цияmodɛrnizácija, апгре́йдapgrɛ́jd, обновле́ниеobnovlénije

  3. An improvement.

    The remarried couples among my friends often joke that their divorce and remarriage amounted to an upgrade.

Examples

42 sentences
  1. Tom got a free upgrade to business class.

  2. There's no need to upgrade.

  3. We'll have to upgrade our servers.

  4. We will replace the current version with the upgrade.

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  5. The upgrade was completed successfully.

    deDie Aktualisierung war erfolgreich. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
an improved component or replacement item:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an improved component or replacement item:

Origin

From up- + grade.

From up- + grade.

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Forms

plural: upgrades
Singularupgrade
Pluralupgrades

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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