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What does middle-class mean?

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Adjective
  1. occupying a position between the upper class and the working class
  2. characteristic of the middle class(es); reflective of that class's values and aspirations. Commonly associated with a desire for social respectability and an emphasis on family values and education.
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We thought we were raggle-taggle gypsies one and all, despite the fact that we were actually middle-class A-level students.
Others, presumably to put the wind up a middle-class academic, exaggerated their crimes.
Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering.
The family appears middle-class, living in attractive apartments, where the colours are warm and the flowers opulent.
The only high-performing Providence school is a largely white, middle-class magnet school affiliated with Brown University.
Millions of middle-class families like these are working hard and trying to get ahead, but they just can't keep up with the health care costs.

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