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elevate (someone or something) to (something)

1. To promote someone to a better position. While my manager was out on maternity leave, they elevated me to her position and I oversaw the whole department.
2. To promote the importance of something. If we don't elevate this issue to urgent, it will never get done.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

elevate someone or something to something

to raise the status of someone to something; to promote someone to something higher, such as a job, a better status, etc. The success elevated her to a new rank and higher pay. The boss's attention elevated the policy question to the highest priority. She sought to elevate herself to some sort of social goddess.
See also: elevate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • elevate
  • elevate (someone or something) to (something)
  • elevated
  • have (one's) foot on (someone's) neck
  • bring (one) up for (something)
  • bring up for
  • pass (something) down (to someone)
  • pass down
  • at the top of the heap
  • top of the heap
References in classic literature
Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society, -- magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper's reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
Count of Monte Cristo
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