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up the stairs; on or to a floor of a house or other building higher than the one that you are on The cat belongs to the people who live upstairs. I carried her bags upstairs. She went upstairs to get dressed. opposite downstairs
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- 2(informal) in the mind; mentally She works hard, but she doesn't have much upstairs (= she is not intelligent).
NAmE//ˈʌpstɛrz//
[only before noun] an upstairs roomIdioms to move someone to a job that seems to be more important but which actually has less power or influenceSee upstairs in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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