Translations for „jack up“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . jack up VB trans

1. jack up (raise a heavy object):

to jack up ⇆ sth

etw hochheben

to jack up a car

ein Auto aufbocken

2. jack up fig inf (raise):

to jack up ⇆ sth

etw erhöhen

to jack up the prices/the rent

die Preise/die Miete in die Höhe treiben

II . jack up VB intr sl

jack up

fixen inf

jack up

drücken inf

jack-up vessel N

User Entry

jack-up vessel (e.g. for installation of offshore platforms and wind turbines)

Hubschiff nt

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

drink up, everyone! Jack's treating!

alle austrinken! Jack gibt einen aus!

to jack up a car

ein Auto aufbocken

to jack up the prices/the rent

die Preise/die Miete in die Höhe treiben

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Merchants would take one look at a man in uniform and jack up their prices.

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Then they make these decisions to jack up prices and reduce services.

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Also, they want to jack up taxes on tobacco (that's original), destroy residential property values through negative gearing.

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I refuse to go back to the days when credit card companies can jack up your rates without reason.

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I thought it was particularly insulting to jack up tuition and then offer the rationalization that financial aid would be increased.

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The wave can stand up fast and violently (jack up in surfing jargon), making it difficult and dangerous.

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I'm not saying we need to jack up our "democracy-volume" all the way to a full-on digital democracy.

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The quickest option they identified was a $1.32 billion project to jack up the bridge to increase its height by 40 percent, which could be accomplished by 2019 at the earliest.

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Atz and his family carefully jack up and move an old abandoned cabin.

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Basically they are trying to rig the system to jack up fares on customers like me.

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