upwardly mobile
Example Sentences
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“But I still do think of this card as being worthwhile for the upwardly mobile, young professional renter. It actually is one of the most lucrative transferable-points cards on the market.”
From MarketWatch
The storyline sees Harold trying to throw a lavish party for his trendy, upwardly mobile friends while dealing with Albert's lack of festive spirit - before both come down with a case of chicken pox on Christmas morning.
From BBC
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon
This happens when an upwardly mobile country can't offer ultra-low wages anymore, but at the same time doesn't have the innovative capacity to create the high-end goods and services of an advanced economy.
From BBC
From the Mamluk slave-soldiers, recruited from Kipchak tribes in what is now southern Russia and Ukraine, to Hurrem, the powerful wife of the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, who started her career as a lot in the Istanbul slave mart, the trope of the upwardly mobile slave has more than a grain of truth.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
