Collocations for "raised"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "raised" in context.
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raise
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- raise a [child, dog, sheep]
- raise [livestock, cows, cattle, sheep]
- raise [livestock] for [food, milk, breeding, sale]
- raise [an issue, a discussion, a topic] (with)
- raise money for the [school, church]
- raise money with a [fundraiser, bake sale]
- raised [$400]
- raised enough (money) to [go, afford, see]
- raise your hand
- raised his [eyebrows, brow] (at)
- raised his [eyebrows] in [shock, disgust, disbelief]
- raised her head and [looked, peered, glanced]
- raised himself [off the floor, to his feet]
- UK: [didn't, couldn't] raise a smile
- (let's) raise the stakes
- (will) raise [questions, doubts, debate]
- the [performance, decision] will raise [doubts]
- raise a [house, shelter, tent, property]
- (loud) enough to raise the dead
- the [students, boys, bikers] were raising hell
- the [band, singers, music, performance, encore] raised the roof
- raise your [aim, expectations, standards]
- raise the [flag, standard, pennant, banner]
- a [pay, wage, salary, tax] raise
- a raise in [pay]
- a [$5,000] raise
- a [$100]-a-[week, month] raise
- a [meager, reasonable, fair, significant, large, cost of living] raise
- a raise in [awareness, donations, votes]
- asked (the boss) for a raise
- [expected, demanded] a raise
- [give, grant, offer] a raise
- poker: [cover, limit, meet] a raise
'raised' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
European
- Lebanon
- alarm
- alone
- audit
- aunt
- barn
- bilingual
- birth
- board
- cane
- captive
- cattle
- cause
- chicken
- chuckle
- collection
- completion
- concern
- contention
- dead
- discussion
- disturbed
- doubt
- eyebrow
- farm
- fist
- funding
- gear
- greeting
- hereafter
- hog
- issue
- lantern
- likewise
- magnet
- mare
- merely
- miserable
- nice
- pawn
- polite
- protect
- raise
- rate
- relief
- revenue
- roof
- scarce
- slaughter