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hike

[hahyk] / haɪk /




VERB
raise, increase
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Advocates contend that minimum-wage hikes increase incomes and reduce poverty, but that depends.

From The Wall Street Journal

A friend who’d been traveling with him had hiked to an area with cell service and provided GPS coordinates to rescuers, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times

Wall Street spent Monday hyperventilating about margin hikes on silver traders.

From MarketWatch

“A big part of what I do is walking and doing urban hikes,” she said, noting that she’s trekked through nearly 20 countries.

From Los Angeles Times

"A customer might very well buy and build roughly where we're standing right now," he says as we hike up to the top of a ridge.

From BBC