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arriviste
OXFORD DICTIONARY
arriviste, n. an ambitious or ruthlessly self-seeking person.
Etymology
F f. arriver f. OF (as ARRIVE, -IST)
THESAURUS
arriviste
Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier, fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, looby, lout, low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, mucker, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy, new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, peasant, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rookie, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, squatter, stowaway, stripling, tenderfoot, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokelFor further exploring for "arriviste" in Webster Dictionary Online