yuppie
1. a young person who lives in a city, earns a lot of money, and spends it…
Meaning of
yuppie
in English
yuppie
noun
disapproving
(
also
yuppy
)
uk
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/
ˈjʌp.i
/
us
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/
ˈjʌp.i
/
young
person
who
lives
in a
city
,
earns
a lot of
money
, and
spends
it doing
fashionable
things and
buying
expensive
possessions:
They’re just a
couple
of yuppies with more
money
than
sense
.
(Definition of
yuppie
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
yuppie
| American Dictionary
yuppie
noun
esp.
disapproving
us
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/
ˈjʌp·i
/
young
,
educated
person
who
lives
in a
city
and is
successful
in
business
, and who has a
life
style
that
involves
spending
a lot of
money
:
Once the yuppies
started
moving
in,
rents
went way up.
(Definition of
yuppie
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
yuppie
| Business English
yuppie
noun
(
also
yuppy
)
uk
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ˈjʌpi
/
us
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plural
yuppies
(
US
also
YAP
)
young
person
who
lives
in a
city
,
earns
a lot of
money
, and
spends
it doing
fashionable
things and
buying
expensive
possessions:
The
term
jetset can no
longer
be
confined
to yuppies, and
international
business
executives
.
(Definition of
yuppie
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Examples
of
yuppie
Similar to gender variation, the state group demonstrated slight topic variation, whereas this was again significant in the
yuppie
group.
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I have repeatedly emphasized that the yuppies see and present themselves as cosmopolitan business professionals.
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They eschew the use of the interdental realization of (ts) because there is little homology between the image of an alley saunterer and a
yuppie
.
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The state professionals thus appear to be less affected by this influence than the yuppies are.
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However, these are only par t of the repository of resources from which they draw to forge their
yuppie
identity.
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These multiple aspects intersect with each other and consequently affect the ways in which the yuppies select and appropriate symbolic resources.
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The linguistic material that the yuppies pick up represents well-known cultural personae.
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Its use not only distinguishes the yuppies from their state counterpar ts, but also helps create and perpetuate the sanctions of the new linguistic market.
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In the interviews, qiáoliáng ‘bridge’ was frequently used by these yuppies to describe their role and their various “bridging” practices in the international business sector.
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Linguistic practice is only a par t of the practices that distinguish the yuppies from other social groups.
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The non-local variants of the other three variables were all used significantly more often when the yuppies discussed their work-related experiences.
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The most striking difference between the state professionals and the yuppies lies in their use of the “cosmopolitan” full tone variant.
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In contrast, across all four variables, female yuppies overwhelmingly favored the non-local variants.
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The yuppies used all of the local variants significantly less than the state professionals did.
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Their monthly salaries, ranging from 1,000 to 4,000 yuan, are much lower than those of the yuppies.
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