top-up
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]top-up (not comparable)
- That serves as an addition
- English university students will have to pay top-up fees.
Translations
[edit]additional
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Noun
[edit]top-up (countable and uncountable, plural top-ups)
- An addition.
- 2013, Melissa Hogenboom, “Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars”, in BBC News:
- Energy will be generated from solar panels, water will be recycled and extracted from soil and the astronauts will grow their own food - they will also have an emergency ration and regular top-ups as new explorers join every two years.
- A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass.
- (insurance) An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values.
- Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone.
- I added a $20 top-up on my cellphone's data plan.
- (medicine) A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia
- 1999, The Epidural “Top-Up” in Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia: The Effect of Volume Versus Dose[1]:
- The reinforcement of anesthesia by an epidural “top-up” in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia may be explained by a dual mechanism: a volume effect compressing the dural sac and a local anesthetic effect.
- (education) The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.
Related terms
[edit]- top up (verb)
Translations
[edit]additional credit purchased for a mobile phone
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