Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - upwardly mobile

If you describe someone as upwardly mobile, you mean that they are moving, have moved, or are trying to move to a higher social position. The Party has been unable to attract upwardly mobile voters. ADJ • The upwardly mobile are people who are upwardly mobile. ...the large detached houses of the upwardly mobile with their double garages and array of cars. N-PLURAL: the N