move up

Questions about move up

What does move up mean?

move up means "move to a better position in life or to a better job". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for move up?

Close synonyms include ascend, rise, rise, lift, arise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is move up a common word?

move up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.