glass ceilingnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌɡlɑːs ˈsiː.lɪŋ/us/ˌɡlæs ˈsiː.lɪŋ/a point after which you cannot go any further, usually in improving your position at work:
Various reasons are given for the apparent glass ceiling women hit in many professions.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- breadth
- condition
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- parameter
- range
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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