bump up

1. 1.

   increase or raise

   “OPEC bumped up the price of oil”

   Broaderraise

Questions about bump up

What does bump up mean?

bump up means "increase or raise".

Is bump up a common word?

bump up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.