upwardly mobileadjective
uk/ˌʌp.wəd.li ˈməʊ.baɪl/us/ˌʌp.wɚd.li ˈmoʊ.bəl/moving or able to move to a higher social class, for example by becoming richer:
The meeting attracted upwardly mobile professional and political women.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- the upper crust
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- well bred
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upward mobility
noun [ U ] uk/ˌʌp.wəd məʊˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌʌp.wɚd moʊˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/