0 moving or able to move to a higher social class, for example by becoming richer:
The meeting attracted upwardly mobile professional and political women.
1 someone who is upwardly mobile is moving or has moved into a higher social position, usually because they are earning more money:
These top-of-the-range models are targeted at young upwardly mobile professionals.
A very substantial class of upwardly mobile and increasingly wealthy farmers became a part of the social and political landscape.
However, despite their negative characterizations of the wealthy, both novelists show the upwardly mobile lower-class woman ultimately placed with a man who represents wealth.
But there is strong evidence indicating that the upwardly mobile have adopted the sociability patterns of the class into which they moved.
Rather, they tended to be people of the middle class : upwardly mobile and determined to stay that way.
Finally, the cooperative approach was criticised by upwardly mobile elements in the farming community.
He was also (inexorably) upwardly mobile, an important factor in his motivation for reading.
Recent economic policies may have undercut the 'domestic' aspirations of the women of hitherto more secure and upwardly mobile working classes.
The marriage patterns of these nine women, however, suggest that single daughters had a better chance of being upwardly mobile.
