middle-class

[ˌmɪdl ˈklæs]

Definition:
1. Connected with the middle social class.
2. Occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy.

Use 'middle-class' in a sentence:

1. But many middle-class occupations—trucking, financial advice, software engineering—have aroused their interest, or soon will.
2. Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees.
3. They were middle-class university students, intelligent and educated, yet they chose to kidnap and kill.
4. She came from a stable, comfortable, middle-class family.
5. In a large number of cases factory workers earn as much, if not more, than their middle-class supervisors.
6. The tensions of the Nixon presidency were replaced by the plain vanilla administration of a friendly, middle-aged, middle-class man from the Middle West.
7. Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau.
8. Many middle-class families will have their lives disrupted in a significant way.
9. Feminism must address issues beyond the concerns of middle-class whites.
10. Many middle-class occupations—trucking, financial advice, software engineering—have aroused their interest, or soon will.
11. Will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families, become any more diverse?
12. He is rapidly losing the support of blue-collar voters and of middle-class conservatives.
13. you could make yourself a pretty good middle-class life.
14. Many traditional middle-class occupations will be eliminated in this way.
15. I think that would be a huge financial hit for middle-class families.
16. He comes from a middle-class Punjabi family.
17. But in the medium term, middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.
18. They're really very much like a lot of ordinary, middle-class families.
19. But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families, become any more diverse?
20. These policies are unlikely to prove popular with middle-class voters.
21. For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households.
22. middle-class kids in trendy clothes.
23. He comes from a completely uncultured, lower middle-class family.
24. The area contains a disproportionate number of young middle-class families.
25. And in the northeast, many middle-class people support the Red Shirts.
26. What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class.
27. Normally job and live a middle-class life day in and day out.
28. Central heating was present in every upper-middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.
29. When we left, Cheltenham, my hometown, was a town of white, middle-class families that were all very conservative.
30. "What white middle-class parents do not always understand," she said, "is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class."
31. Where will the good middle-class jobs of the future come from?
32. In the past, the working-class tended to be paid less than middle-class people, such as teachers and doctors.
33. Until now, a B.A. in any subject was a near-guarantee of at least middle-class wages.
34. Jennifer and her two younger brothers were raised in a middle-class suburb of Detroit by her mother and stepfather.
35. The selection of pupils for grammar schools was biased in favour of the middle-class child of a small family from a good area.
36. "I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said.
37. He's just a well-brought-up, middle-class boy.
38. Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.
39. The stereotype of what a middle-class man did with his money was perhaps nearer the truth.
40. It's the average American middle-class family who's being priced out of the market.
41. These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility.
42. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class life.
43. There is a competitive streak in this generation of middle-class parents.
44. Many colonists were able to adopt a lifestyle similar to that of middle-class Britons.
45. They are middle-class Americans and are necessary in order to have a strong economy.
46. He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
47. His informants were middle-class professional women.
48. It was middle-class votes they were pitching for.
49. The magazine is very middle-class.
50. Politics is still dominated by the middle-class mafia.
51. Reform is popular with middle-class liberals.