noun Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
cattle raising
noun Recruitment.
noun Collection or gathering, especially of money.
noun The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
to help at a raising
noun The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
noun A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.