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Wat (wie) is social climbing - definitie

RELATIVE NEWCOMER TO A SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS
Social climber; Parvenus; Social Climbers; Social-climbing; Social climbing; Arriviste

social climbing         
also 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.
All that vulgar social-climbing!
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
Social climbing is also an adjective.
...Leroy's ambitious social-climbing wife.
ADJ: ADJ n
social-climbing         
social climber         
¦ noun derogatory a person who is anxious to gain a higher social status.
Derivatives
social climbing noun

Wikipedia

Parvenu

A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a high-ranking socioeconomic class. The word is borrowed from the French language; it is the past participle of the verb parvenir (to reach, to arrive, to manage to do something).

Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor social climbing
1. The survey names Cardiff as the hub of social climbing.
2. The former Everest of social climbing has now been reduced to a gentle hillock.
3. Neither really wants to be with the other, but passion overrules their social–climbing skills.
4. Prince Rupert certainly appealed to Mick‘s fiscal sharpness, and perhaps, also, to his love of social climbing.
5. Warner‘s exit will complete a remarkable personal passage for a man once derided by critics at the start of his Senate career as a shallow, social climbing dilettante.