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upper middle classnoun [treated as singular or plural]The social group between the upper and the middle class made up of well-paid professionals, managers, and their families: the growth of white-collar employment has accounted for the expansion of the upper middle class the social pattern of marrying later in life had originally been confined to the upper middle classes...- Most people reading this review will be middle class, maybe upper middle class and you will be the ones who will have to live on a tiny £40,000 per year.
- They were upper middle class or middle class in origin.
- Meanwhile, to an increasing extent, wine is the beverage of choice of middle and upper middle class families in the Cape and in the inland areas around Johannesburg.
adjectiveRelating to the upper middle class: she seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background...- Socioeconomic status was not formally assessed, but school principals considered the participating schools to be located in middle-class to upper-middle-class neighbourhoods.
- The march was a well-organized show of force by a segment of society that traditionally has not been activist: middle-class and upper-middle-class taxpayers.
- Also, there is a preference for English-language use among middle-class and upper-middle-class adults.
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