kakenga
1. (noun) ascent, rise, promotion.
I tana kakenga atu hai pirikitea i te tau 1974, ka tonoa a ia e te Pirimia, e Norman Kirk, kia noho hai māngai mō te rōpū takawaenga tuatahi a te kāwanatanga i haere atu nei i Aotearoa ki Papua Nūkini (TTR 2000:155). / On his promotion to brigadier in 1974, he was sent by the prime minister, Norman Kirk, to head New Zealand’s first diplomatic mission to Papua New Guinea.
Synonyms: whakapiki, whakatairanga, kōkiri, manana, taki, whanake, hī, pupū, ea, kōhiti
