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social climbing

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˈklaɪmɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • /ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˈklaɪmɪŋ/

Definitions of social climbing words

  • noun social climbing advancement of one's social status 1
  • uncountable noun social climbing You describe someone's behaviour as social climbing when they try to get accepted into a higher social class by becoming friendly with people who belong to that class. 0
  • uncountable noun social climbing Social climbing is also an adjective. 0
  • modifier social climbing relating to advancement to a higher social class, esp by obsequious behaviour 0

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Parts of speech for Social climbing

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

social climbing popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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