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middle class

See also: middle-class

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middle class (plural middle classes)

  1. A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
    Synonyms: middling class, middling sort
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 8 August 2013:
      All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
  2. (in the plural) The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.

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