upward mobility
noun
: the capacity or facility for rising to a higher social or economic position
upwardly mobile
adjective
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Those children crowd out their peers, and the path to upward mobility narrows.
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Brown, a starter, added to the bullpen’s upward mobility.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
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March 20, 2017
Nineteenth-century board games help to map public morality, from religious virtue to upward mobility.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2025
And all over Vietnam, bright high schoolers are pushing for, and expecting, upward mobility.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Brown, a starter, added to the bullpen’s upward mobility.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
More to Explore Gamification, Then and Now Livia Gershon
March 20, 2017
Nineteenth-century board games help to map public morality, from religious virtue to upward mobility.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2025
And all over Vietnam, bright high schoolers are pushing for, and expecting, upward mobility.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for upward mobility
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“Upward mobility.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upward%20mobility. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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