corporate ladder
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈkɔːr.pə.rət ˈlæd.ər/
- Informal
:
escalera corporativa
- After years of hard work, Maria finally reached the top of the corporate ladder and became the CEO of the company.
- climbing the corporate ladder
- move up the corporate ladder
And I started climbing the corporate ladder.
- And I started climbing the corporate ladder.
- My dad, he's not poor, he's high level in the corporate ladder.
- But I would have felt isolated and alone and just so trapped and, like, stuck in one place and in the corporate ladder if the Internet wasn't here.
- Whereas some peacetime who's climbing the corporate ladder right now, they just lost their job.
Examples
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The findings showed that there were benefits in having minorities in senior-level positions; however, the findings also showed that African-American females faced serious challenges in their climb up the corporate ladder.
Academic text (2016) -
As a result, making career decisions with strategic intent, as opposed to necessity, becomes important for individuals with aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder.
Academic text (2016) -
Many of the men were from Wall Street, and you could tell who was where on the corporate ladder by what they wore.
Blog text (7) -
You are climbing the corporate ladder.
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Time to climb the corporate ladder.
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Over time, they were gradually promoted and moved up the corporate ladder.
Academic text (2012) -
Some of us have landed our dream jobs, and others continue to climb the corporate ladder.
Blog text (16) -
American women constantly find themselves hitting a 'glass ceiling' when climbing up the corporate ladder.
Academic text (1996) -
For the last two years, she'd been on the corporate fast track, starting in lower management and working her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many employees feel that networking is essential to successfully climb the corporate ladder and advance their careers.
Synonyms
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3.2
A series of levels people move through to reach higher jobs
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5.8
A system that puts people and things in order by rank or power
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4.2
How people in a group are arranged by who has more power or status
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3.5
A series of job levels a person moves up to reach higher positions
How Hierarchical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'corporate' (company-related) with 'ladder' (a series of steps you climb), so listeners can infer a series of hierarchical steps within a company. This career-as-climbing metaphor is common across languages and everyday discourse, making the expression immediately comprehensible to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
The phrase corporate ladder comes from the simple image of a ladder in a company, where each step stands for a higher job. So to 'climb the corporate ladder' means to move up to 'higher positions' with more 'status' and 'responsibility'.