Of a person or group of people: able to move freely between different social levels, or to change occupation readily. Also of a society, social…

Of or pertaining to the different levels of a hierarchy or progression. Involving differences or changes of level as in social class, income group…

To or towards a higher position or plane; from a lower to a loftier level or object; in an ascending… Sociology. upward mobility, movement from a…

= upward-mobile at upward, adv. 1e.