middle class
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
middle class (plural middle classes)
- 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.
- (in the plural) The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- middle-class (adjective)
Translations[edit]
social and economic class
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Further reading[edit]
- middle class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia