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a. Likely to advance in economic or social standing.
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Upwardly Mobile was an Irish television sitcom that was made and broadcast by RTÉ. Three series, including three Christmas specials, were originally broadcast on RTÉ One between 8 September 1995 and 26 December 1997.
The programme starred Joe Savino and Catherine Byrne as northside couple Eddie and Molly Keogh, who win the Lotto and move to the exclusive Belvedere Downs estate on the southside of Dublin. Backed by a strong supporting cast, the series chronicles their highs and lows in life, in particular the contrast with their upper-class neighbours.
Usage examples of "upwardly mobile".
Authorities were concerned with protecting the upwardly mobile middle-class home buyer.
Home to the upwardly mobile and the stylishly hip, Uptown was, in fact, south of downtown, which had never made any sense to Kovac.
It spoke, clearly, of the gradual takeover of the disenfranchised area by the upwardly mobile young urbanite with money, energy, and time.
CAT statistics also show 'young, upwardly mobile-black-and-woman as being the preferred identity.
In this world, they're upwardly mobile nobles, merchant-princes trying to marry into the royal family.
Or a guy who cracked feeble jokes in place of real entertainment in some dive harboring upwardly mobile aspirations toward the lower lower class.
It took Cade a moment to recognize her, in the slacks and unadorned zipper jacket that she was wearing over a military-style shirt, as Clara Norburn, once the fashion-conscious, upwardly mobile star of the former state governor's office.
The BMWs and Jaguars were owned by the younger, more upwardly mobile people.
From nine to five, dressed and acted like all the other upwardly mobile tai pan.
His family was upper middle class and still upwardly mobile, and the marriage of his parents was sound.
Now upwardly mobile Americans converted to Islam in increasing numbers.