Meaning of raising

(adj) increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"

(noun) the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"

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

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