middle_class has definitions from the field of sociology
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[ noun ] (sociology) the social class between the lower and upper classes

Synonyms

bourgeoisie

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

This is especially in_evidence among the present generation of the suburban middle_class .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Another great danger is that the emerging middle_class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political_leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism .

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