Usually means: Advancing status through strategic relationships.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word social climbing:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. social climbing: Merriam-Webster
  2. social climbing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. social-climbing, social-climbing, social climbing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. social-climbing: Wordnik
  5. social climbing: Wiktionary
  6. social climbing: Dictionary.com
  7. Social-climbing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. social climbing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. social climbing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See social_climber as well.)

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noun:  The act of trying to improve one's social status, especially by obsequious means

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