"upgauge" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "upgauging",
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      "form": "upgauged",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "upgauged",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A flight is initially scheduled on a Boeing 737-800. Due to high demand, the airline might upgauge the flight to a Boeing 737-900, which has a larger passenger capacity."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 28, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation, Airline Delays and Consumer Service: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, pages 49-50:",
          "text": "They have proposed a scheme forcing airlines to upgauge the planes serving La Guardia. But at a capac ity constrained, slot-controlled airport like La Guardia, discriminating against regional aircraft could jeopardize service to countless, communities communities as large as Jacksonville, Knoxville, Columbus, Dayton, Louisville, Savannah and dozens more.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Vitaly Guzhva, Sunder Raghavan, Damon J. D'Agostino, Aircraft Leasing and Financing: Tools for Success in International Aircraft Acquisition and Management, 2 edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "Following the postpandemic recovery, pilot shortages have lead many airlines, especially in the United States, to upgauge (move from regional jets up to 100-plus set narrowbodies) their fleets.",
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        "What an airline does when it replaces an originally scheduled aircraft with a larger one of a similar type."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(aviation) What an airline does when it replaces an originally scheduled aircraft with a larger one of a similar type."
      ],
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        "aeronautics",
        "aerospace",
        "aviation",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
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  "word": "upgauge"
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    {
      "form": "upgauges",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upgauging",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upgauged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "upgauged",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A flight is initially scheduled on a Boeing 737-800. Due to high demand, the airline might upgauge the flight to a Boeing 737-900, which has a larger passenger capacity."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 28, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation, Airline Delays and Consumer Service: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, pages 49-50:",
          "text": "They have proposed a scheme forcing airlines to upgauge the planes serving La Guardia. But at a capac ity constrained, slot-controlled airport like La Guardia, discriminating against regional aircraft could jeopardize service to countless, communities communities as large as Jacksonville, Knoxville, Columbus, Dayton, Louisville, Savannah and dozens more.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Vitaly Guzhva, Sunder Raghavan, Damon J. D'Agostino, Aircraft Leasing and Financing: Tools for Success in International Aircraft Acquisition and Management, 2 edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "Following the postpandemic recovery, pilot shortages have lead many airlines, especially in the United States, to upgauge (move from regional jets up to 100-plus set narrowbodies) their fleets.",
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        "(aviation) What an airline does when it replaces an originally scheduled aircraft with a larger one of a similar type."
      ],
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        "business",
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