the middle class
noun [S] (also the middle classes)Definition
› ECONOMICS the social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who are neither very rich nor very poor: lower/upper middle class The upper middle class tends to go into business or the professions.
middle-class /ˌmɪdl̩ˈklɑːs/
/ˈmɪdlˈklæs/ adjective › Tax subsidies will be granted to help uninsured middle-class families. → Compare lower-class, upper class, working-class(Definition of the middle class noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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