workone'swayup (third-person singular simple presentworks one's way up,present participleworking one's way up,simple past and past participleworked one's way up)

1. toclimb somethingeffortfully
2. to reach higher positions through effort after starting at lower levels or the very bottom

   Heworked his way up from janitor to regional manager.

   1. toclimb the figurativecorporate ladder
   2. torise within ahierarchicalorder

• rise through the ranks

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