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mobile

mobile

35 5.0
Able to move from one social class to another
  • adjective
  • /ˈmoʊbəl/
translation icon : con movilidad social
  • Yuppie stands for “young, upwardly mobile professional.”
  • upwardly mobile
  • downwardly mobile
  • a mobile society

We sort of were very socially mobile throughout my time there.

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Examples

  • His example is typical of upwardly mobile Southern migrants in the early nineteenth century.

    Academic text (2011)
  • You are on an upwardly mobile trajectory and you find yourself in New Mexico on a business trip.

  • Well, what do you do in highly mobile societies?

  • We sort of were very socially mobile throughout my time there.

  • The younger General Conference Mennonites have had to be mobile and move to where the jobs are located.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Nixon wanted to appeal to those urban, upwardly mobile voters stretching all the way from Florida to California.

  • Under these uncertain conditions, kin groups tended to be highly mobile and often defined their ethnicity situationally.

    Academic text (1998)
  • In a highly mobile society, people can easily change their social status.

  • Young professionals often find themselves in upwardly mobile environments that encourage advancement.

  • Many families strive for upward mobility to achieve a better quality of life.

Synonyms

fluid
vsmobile
43 5.1

Not fixed or stable and likely to change

refers specifically to changing position between social classes

Antonyms

45 3.8

Not moving or changing over time

1.8

Stays the same and cannot be changed

Compounds

58 1.0

A small telephone you carry to call, text, and go online

29 2.5

A large house made in a factory that can be moved and has water and electricity

1 4.2

A bay off the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Alabama where the Mobile River flows

A temporary barrier on a road that slows vehicles and guides traffic

A river in southwest Alabama that flows into Mobile Bay

A vehicle that serves food and drinks to people at work sites or events

primum mobile
  • Archaic
9.9

A being that starts all motion and has no cause itself

How Mobile

fluid
43 5.1
mobile
35 5.0
open
579 1.0
stable
473 2.3
closed
16 1.3

Surface Forms

mobile positive

Etymology

Mobile comes from Latin mobilis 'movable', like the words move and motion. That's why a 'mobile' society or person is able to 'move' between social positions or change their status.