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middle class

the social class between the aristocracy or very wealthy and the lower working class: people in business and the professions, highly skilled workers, well-to-do farmers, etc. are now generally included in the middle class
middle-class definition

middle-class (-klas′)

adjective

of, having to do with, or characteristic of the middle class: often used variously to connote conventional, smug, materialistic, etc. attitudes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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