upwardly mobile

comparative more upwardly mobile · superlative most upwardly mobile

1. Likely to advance in economic or social standing.

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   Still, at least the venue was appropriate: Lettice had hired out the long, dusty salon that formed the first-storey salesroom of an upmarket architectural salvage business. It was here young and upwardly-mobile couples came to browse among the mouldings, entablatures, pilasters and ironwork of the past.

   2015 July 26, Will Self, “Original short story: Architectural Salvage, by Will Self”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: bourgeois