middle class

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.

• lower middle class
• upper middle class

• middle-class (adjective)

• bourgeoisie
• bourgie
• white-collar
• yuppie, yuppies

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