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middle class
noun as in neither the nobility nor laboring class
noun as in an economic class perceived as average
adjective as in characteristic of the middle class
Example Sentences
“If you have $4 million in retirement and take out 4% a year, you are hardly rich. You are middle class,” he wrote.
“If you have $4 million in retirement and take out 4% a year, you are hardly rich. You are middle class,” he wrote.
One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.
Bill, which provided a college education for veterans returning home from World War II, helped expand the middle class and transformed colleges and universities into the entities educating millions of students that we know today.
Demand is increasing in countries with growing middle classes, such as China, South Africa, and India.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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