step up

prendre ses responsabilités, se porter volontaire

Prendre une responsabilité ou proposer son aide quand c'est nécessaire.

En anglais simple : To take responsibility or offer help when it is needed.

• Someone needs to step up.
• She stepped up to lead the team.
• Will you step up and take responsibility?

Comment l'utiliser : step up to something (She stepped up to the challenge of running the team.); step up to do something (Several neighbours stepped up to help.)

Synonymes : take responsibility, volunteer, come forward

Contraires : shirk responsibility

Expressions courantes : step up now, step up and help, step up to lead

augmenter, intensifier

Augmenter la quantité, la force ou le niveau de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To increase the amount, strength, or level of something.

• We need to step up our efforts.
• Police stepped up security at the station.
• The factory has stepped up production to meet demand.

Comment l'utiliser : step something up (The company stepped production up before the holidays.)

Synonymes : increase, boost, intensify

Contraires : reduce, decrease

Expressions courantes : step up efforts, step up production, step up security