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move out to move up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:set phrase) To advance one's career by leaving one's present employer in order to take a better position with another employer.
    • In our world of communications, you don't have to move out to move up. When your objectives change and your abilities expand, you'll find your next level of achievement is waiting for you elsewhere in our world. 1978 May 22, "Come Aboard! Electro '78 Career Cruises" (GTE employment advertisement), Computerworld, p. 85 (retrieved 16 May 2014)
    • Now, with flatter organizations, promotions may be less available so you may have to move out to move up. 2011, Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 11th edition, →ISBN, page 210:
    • After a year of working below my capacity and receiving no response several times when I asked to be moved into the position promised, I realized I'd need to move out to move up. 1988, Jeffrey G. Allen, The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book, →ISBN, page 185:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
moves out to move up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
moved out to move up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
moved out to move up Tense=Past lexicographic
moving out to move up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

job-hopping · up or out · go along to get along