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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
Jonathan Ames

Meaning of "upwardly mobile" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UPWARDLY MOBILE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPWARDLY MOBILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Upwardly mobile is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UPWARDLY MOBILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of upwardly mobile in the English dictionary

The definition of upwardly mobile in the dictionary is moving or aspiring to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UPWARDLY MOBILE

uptrend
uptrilled
upturn
upturned
upvaluation
upvalue
UPVC
UPW
upwaft
upward
upward mobility
upward social mobility
upwardly
upwardness
upwards
upwell
upwhirl
upwind
upwrap
upwrought

WORDS THAT END LIKE UPWARDLY MOBILE

airmobile
automobile
bile
bloodmobile
bookmobile
Dormobile
downwardly mobile
immobile
mobile
Nobile
nonmobile
piano nobile
pimpmobile
Popemobile
primum mobile
skimobile
snowmobile
stabile
strobile
traymobile

Synonyms and antonyms of upwardly mobile in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «upwardly mobile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UPWARDLY MOBILE

Find out the translation of upwardly mobile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of upwardly mobile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «upwardly mobile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

向上移动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

movilidad ascendente
570 millions of speakers

English

upwardly mobile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

upwardly मोबाइल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

راق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вверх мобильные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ascensão social
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঊর্ধ্বতনভাবে মোবাইল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mobiles vers le haut
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bergerak ke atas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aufsteiger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

将来有望な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위쪽으로 이동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Munggah seluler
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điện thoại di động đi lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேல்நோக்கி மொபைல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऊर्ध्वगामी मोबाइल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yukarıya doğru hareket eden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

in ascesa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

w górę mobilna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вгору мобільні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mobil în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προς τα πάνω το κινητό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opwaarts mobiele
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

marsch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppover mobil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of upwardly mobile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UPWARDLY MOBILE»

The term «upwardly mobile» is regularly used and occupies the 64.072 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about upwardly mobile

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2 QUOTES WITH «UPWARDLY MOBILE»

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Jonathan Ames
I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
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Clive Davis
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPWARDLY MOBILE»

Discover the use of upwardly mobile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to upwardly mobile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Debt-free by 30: practical advice for young, broke & ...
A young adult's guide to personal finance presents a practical, step-by-step program for eliminating debt and living debt free, offering helpful advice on how to spend less, conquer credit card addiction, pay off student loans, keep more of ...
Jason Anthony, Karl Cluck, 2001
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The European Second Generation Compared: Does the ...
Table 6.12 shows the proportion of respondents who are upwardly mobile, i.e. those Table 6.12 Intergenerational occupational mobility (in %), by city, group and sex whose current occupational status is higher than their parents' ( measured.
Maurice Crul, Jens Schneider, Frans Lelie, 2012
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Women¿s Labor Market Involvement and Family Income Mobility ...
Earnings and Income Changes by Mobility Direction Figure 8 compares the three components of the increase in women's labor income for upwardly mobile families losing a husband with those for all families losing a husband. Categorizing by ...
Katharine Bradbury, 2009
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Focus on Scotland
Non-upwardly mobile. Occupation: schoolteacher. Educated: St. Margaret's School; Edinburgh University. M/K speaker, and the most readily identifiable one. Speaker B: Edinburgh, UMC female, born 1943. Non—upwardly mobile.
Manfred Görlach, 1985
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Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and ...
2 Do these upwardly mobile individuals draw symbolic boundaries in a distinctive way? Their socioeconomic boundaries are moderately stronger than those of downwardly mobile individuals and than those whose occupations are of ...
Michèle Lamont, 2012
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The Psychology of Social Class
The percentages seen in the last week were: downwardly mobile 41% upwardly mobile 60% non-mobile 70% (Firth et ai, 1969) Goldthorpe found reduced frequency of meeting for upwardly mobile men, compared with the level of kin contact ...
Michael Argyle, 1994
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Teenage Pregnancy: The Interaction of Psyche and Culture
of providing alternative places of residence for children or teens. Upwardly mobile households in both cohorts, however, were as likely as both of these other family types to include other “kin.” Traditional families in the mother cohort, however, ...
Anne L Dean, 2013
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The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social ...
Church members Nonmembers Nonagricultural proprietors Upwardly mobile 0 0 Downwardly mobile 13 22 Net change •13 -22 N« 15 32 Nonagricultural nonproprietors Upwardly mobile 56 35 N« 9 40 Agricultural proprietors Upwardly mobile ...
Randolph A. Roth, 2002
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Building European Society: Occupational Change and Social ...
Marriage patterns of upwardly mobile grooms (grooms who reported an occupational category of higher status than their fathers) * Definition of column headings: (a) = percentage of upwardly mobile grooms reporting an occupation of the ...
Andrew Miles, David Vincent, 1993
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Population Change in Southeast Asia
Likewise, the actual means were generally and significantly higher than the expected means among the moderately upwardly mobile and the very upwardly mobile. In sum, the additive model failed to account for the variations observed in the ...
Wilfredo F. Arce, Gabriel C. Alvarez, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPWARDLY MOBILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term upwardly mobile is used in the context of the following news items.
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Interview: HTC goes upwardly mobile
The smartphone industry is as competitive as any out there. An entire year's worth of sales can hinge on whether you are producing products with the 'wow' ... «ArabianBusiness.com, Jun 15»
2
Upwardly mobile: the new urban villages
For almost 300 years the abundantly named Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family has owned a great swathe of the affluent Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. «The Times, Jun 15»
3
Upwardly Mobile: The Surprisingly Swift Climb of South Alabama
If you've never been to Mobile, Ala., it looks about like you'd expect for a place that bills itself as the birthplace of Carnival celebrations in the United States. «HailVarsity.com | Husker News, Jun 15»
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Harvard study shows Ottawa County most upwardly mobile
Ottawa County is the most upwardly mobile place in Michigan, according to the project. Fogel says Ottawa ranks above average in racial segregation, does very ... «Michigan Radio, Jun 15»
5
Houston, Minnesota, San Francisco upwardly mobile: Paul Hoynes …
They lost ace Adam Wainwright to a season-ending Achilles heel injury and never stumbled. This week first baseman Matt Adams went down with ... «cleveland.com, May 15»
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Sports betting goes upwardly mobile with new Android app
Sports betting goes upwardly mobile with new Android app ... Heck, these days you can even watch the real time live sport on your mobile handsets while sitting ... «Android Headlines - Android News, Apr 15»
7
Upwardly Mobile
In Africa, mobile banking has developed more rapidly than it has in the West. M-Pesa, a Kenyan money-transfer service, allows anyone with a phone to move ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
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Boohoo proves upwardly mobile as turnround sees revenues rise
Budget online fashion retailer Boohoo.com appears to have halted its recent decline, posting a 27 per cent increase in full-year revenues after a boost in mobile ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
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Upwardly Mobile: 'Connected World'
These are just a few of the questions AT&T is looking at in their innovation series Upwardly Mobile. A bold look into what the next 20+ years has in store for us ... «The Awl, Mar 15»
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Upwardly mobile women eager to hear Hillary Clinton's message
In her appearance before a Silicon Valley women's conference Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is staking an early claim to voters who ... «SFGate, Feb 15»

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