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middle class
1[ mid-l klas ]
noun
- the social, economic, and cultural class of people thought of as having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like:
Life for the middle class includes going to college, getting a job, getting married, buying a house, and raising kids.
We intend to put an end to the tax squeeze on the middle class.
- Sociology. Sometimes middle classes. the socioeconomic stratum intermediate between the upper or aristocratic class and the laboring class, made up mostly of business people, professionals, civil servants, and skilled workers, and sometimes further subdivided into the upper middle class and the lower middle class:
In the 1950s and 1960s in America, an emphasis on education increased upward mobility, and the middle class expanded.
Self-improvement, a strong work ethic, and modesty were among the core moral values of the German middle classes of the early 20th century.
- any intermediate class.
middle-class
2[ mid-l-klas, -klahs ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois:
middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
middle class
noun
- Also calledbourgeoisie a social stratum that is not clearly defined but is positioned between the lower and upper classes. It consists of businessmen, professional people, etc, along with their families, and is marked by bourgeois values Compare lower class upper class working class
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class
middle class
- A social and economic class composed of those more prosperous than the poor, or lower class, and less wealthy than the upper class. Middle class is sometimes loosely used to refer to the bourgeoisie . In the United States and other industrial countries, the term is often applied to white-collar , as opposed to blue-collar , workers.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of middle class1
Origin of middle class2
Example Sentences
It would be regressive because the taxes would hit the poor and middle class much harder than the wealthy, because a larger share of their income goes toward basics like gas, food and clothes.
Work as a public sector/government employee has long been a path to the middle class for Black and brown stivers, white ethnics, and immigrants to America.
Department of Justice attorneys say the native North American species is coveted by a rising middle class and are worth at least $2,000 each on the black market.
The majority of Americans consider themselves middle class, whether or not their lived reality or ability to afford housing or share of aggregate income reflect what we used to consider middle class.
This wonderful commercial interruption, however, takes place as a trade war due to tariffs escalates across the globe, threatening an unnecessary recession, along with more pain and suffering for the middle class.
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