middle class definition

middle class

Social class usually comprising of white-collar (non-manual) workers, lower-level managers, and small business owners, often constituting about one-third of the employed population of a country. The income of this class is higher than that of the working-class but lower than that of the upper-middle class (doctors, engineers, lawyers, middle-size business owners) and upper class.

middle class is in the Economics, Politics, & Society subject.

middle class appears in the definitions of the following terms: upper class and social class

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