upward mobility

British  

noun

1. sociol the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a position of increased status or power Compare downward mobility See also horizontal mobility vertical mobility

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upward mobility Cultural  

1. Rising from a lower to a higher social class or status. (See also social mobility.)

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Example Sentences

The settlement movement’s contribution to successful assimilation and upward mobility merits the attention this book pays.

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We are introduced to “clever women,” well-educated daughters and wives with no upward mobility and no chance at a public life, who turned their “restless intelligence” to medicine.

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This single-minded Lincoln is of, by and for partisan politics, first as a Whig committed to amassing support for infrastructure-building and upward mobility, and later as a Republican devoted to preventing the spread of slavery into the American West and eventually to eliminating it entirely.

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Jason Riley is an opinion columnist at The Wall Street Journal, where his column, Upward Mobility, has run since 2016.

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That prompted a question: “Can we bring opportunity to people where they currently live, rather than simply moving people to opportunity?” asked Chetty, who directs Opportunity Insights, a Harvard-based institute that studies how to improve upward mobility.

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