To do or buy things for status, show, or image rather than out of need, especially for the purpose of competing with friends or neighbors.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
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Keep Up With the Joneses | To live up to like ones neighbors, to maintain a living standard as one’s influential neighbors have |
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