hypergamy
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edit- (General American) IPA(key): /haɪˈpɚɡəmi/
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Noun
edithypergamy (usually uncountable, plural hypergamies)
- Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself.
- 2012 February 11, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times[1]:
- From 1940 to the mid-1970s, the tendency for men to marry down educationally became more pronounced and the cultural ideal of hypergamy — that women must marry up — became more insistent.
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edit- marrying up (colloquial expression)
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edithypergamy
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