top-up
Adjective
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Adjective
top-up
- That serves as an addition
- English university students will have to pay top-up fees.
- Russian: доба́вочный
top-up
- An addition.
- 2013, BBC News, by Melissa Hogenboom, Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars ↗
- 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.
- 2013, BBC News, by Melissa Hogenboom, Applicants wanted for a one-way ticket to Mars ↗
- (insurance) An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values.
- Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone.
- (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 ↗
- 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.
- 1999, The Epidural “Top-Up” in Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia: The Effect of Volume Versus Dose ↗
- (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.
- top up (verb)
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