Definition of "upwardly mobile" []

• Advancing or likely to advance in economic and social standing: "They had considered her suitor unambitious, not sufficiently upwardly mobile” ( Maggie Scarf). (adjective)
• Those regarded as advancing rapidly in economic and social standing. Used with the. (noun)

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• "For middle-class kids like me, restless but well-meaning upwardly mobile parents kept us uprooted, undersupervised, and overfunded."