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social climber en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (derogatory) One who tries to improve his or her social status, especially by means of obsequious behaviour.
   • “Are you accusing me of social climbing!” she fumed, getting right in his face. “You are a social climber, my darling.” “They only call you a social climber if you're not good at it,” Lucy said, starting for the front door, checking her phone for what would be the last time as she exited. 2012, Tonya Hurley, The Blessed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 79:

Forms

Coordinates

nouveau riche · parvenu · careerist · arriviste

Relateds

corporate ladder · pecking order · social mobility · monkey-branch · upwardly mobile · upward mobility · marry up · social ladder · socialite · economic mobility

Translations (17)

es trepa (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · de Karrierist (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · fr arriviste (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · el αριβίστας (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · de (sozialer) Aufsteiger (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · es arribista (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · es trepador (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · da stræber (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · pt arrivista (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · pl karierowiczka (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · fi pyrkyri (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · da karrieremager (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · id panjat sosial (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · fi kiipijä (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · fr grimpeur (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · pl karierowicz (one who tries to improve his or her social position) · pt alpinista social (one who tries to improve his or her social position)