upwardly mobile

British  

adjective

1. (of a person or social group) moving or aspiring to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power

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Example Sentences

“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 The Wall Street Journal