upshifternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʌp.ʃɪft.ər/us/ˈʌp.ʃɪft.ɚ/UK informalsomeone who gets a job that is well paid and difficult because they no longer want to stay at home or do a job that is easy
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Promoting staff
- aggrandizement
- ascend
- career-limiting
- demote
- depute
- exalt
- fast track
- free transfer
- handover
- in the wilderness idiom
- install
- promotion
- rank
- relegate
- second 1
- subordination
- time-scale promotion
- transfer
- upgradation
- vault
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upshift
verb [ I ] uk/ˈʌp.ʃɪft/us/ˈʌp.ʃɪft/
upshifting
noun [ U ] uk/ˈʌp.ʃɪft.ɪŋ/us/ˈʌp.ʃɪft.ɪŋ/