Etymology

From up- +‎ codeCategory:English terms prefixed with up-#CODE.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpkəʊd/Category:English 2-syllable words#UPCODECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#UPCODE
• (verb) IPA^(key): /ʌpˈkəʊd/Category:English 2-syllable words#UPCODECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#UPCODE

Noun

upcode (plural upcodes)Category:English lemmas#UPCODECategory:English nouns#UPCODECategory:English countable nouns#UPCODECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UPCODECategory:Pages with entries#UPCODECategory:Pages with 1 entry#UPCODE

1. (computingCategory:en:Computing#UPCODE) The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.
   • 2023, Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, pages 12-13:

     Upcode includes the mental codes that shape human thought and behavior from within and the cultural codes that operate on us, often invisibly, from without: personal morality, religious rituals, social norms, legal rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, website terms of service. Downcode is run by computers, upcode by humans.

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Verb

upcode (third-person singular simple present upcodes, present participle upcoding, simple past and past participle upcoded)Category:English lemmas#UPCODECategory:English verbs#UPCODECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#UPCODECategory:Pages with entries#UPCODECategory:Pages with 1 entry#UPCODE

1. (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#UPCODE, chiefly USCategory:American English#UPCODE) To change the diagnostic code of a patient's condition from the correct code to one for which a larger amount can be billed.
   • 2014 March 28, Peter Parry, “Biologism in Psychiatry: A Young Man’s Experience of Being Diagnosed with “Pediatric Bipolar Disorder””, in Journal of Clinical Medicine‎, volume 3, →DOI:

     Several factors appear to have fueled the PBD epidemic: […] ; and diagnostic upcoding in the U.S. health system that rations treatment according to DSM diagnoses [ 14 ].

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2. To give an improved code or rating to something.
   • 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: W.R. up-codes mineral and coal trains”, in Modern Railways, page 373:

     Introduction of more wagons fitted with vacuum brakes and roller-bearing axleboxes has made it possible to up-code trains conveying steel and coal traffic.

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Anagrams

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