middle-class


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Synonyms for middle-class

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Antonyms for middle-class

occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy

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This was possible, in large measure, because California's middle-class electorate, having passed through the dialectic process described by Gotcher, considered it more important to be part of the winning side than to defend sound principles.
Separate schools for poor and working-class kids on the one hand, and middle-class and wealthy children on the other, are inherently unequal, he believed.
Dent, In Search of Black America, takes up the unenviable task of trying to describe what life is like for blacks, specifically the black middle-class in the late 20th century.
What fuels the explosion in management literature is a single set of ideas, cropping up everywhere from the works of Tom Peters to July's issue of Fortune, with its cover story on "cool companies, extreme investing." Yes, American business has discovered the nineteenth-century critique of middle-class values; it has realized the validity of all those dead aesthetes' complaints about the stifling ways of the bourgeoisie and the horror of routine; it is living giddily through a '60s of its own in which talk of "revolution" has acquired a cachet it hasn't had for several decades.
21) and in the case of middle-class women like Nabawiyah Musa, they attempted to change class.
Both men proclaim their complete faith in the "American dream," which they equate with "family values" and "middle-class ideals" Republicans like Gingrich, however, do so with a great deal more conviction and confidence.
Policy-makers seem to be taking for granted middle-class Filipinos as many of them continue to lack access to basic services, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said on Thursday.
Those middle-class people who had committed the crime of buying homes on mortgage have been effectively murdered financially.
He observed that income has grown more slowly for middle-class households since the 1970s than for those with higher incomes.
Imran Khan's fading away will also result in the birth of a much overdue, middle-class, political party alternative to the PTI.
The study also revealed that nine in 10 of the next billion middle-class consumers will come from Asia.
Yet she notes that a wide variety of secondary factors, such as occupation, individual income or family income, may also contribute to middle-class status.