raising

Adjective

• increasing in quantity or value
  • a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate
    

Noun

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
  • they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
    

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• the event of something being raised upward
  • an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
    
  • a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  breeding , bringing up , fostering , fosterage , nurture , rearing , upbringing , elevation , lift