middle-class background

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middle-class
adjective
uk
/ˌmɪd.əlˈklɑːs/us
/ˌmɪd.əlˈklæs/
UK
relating to a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not ...
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background
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/us
/ˈbæk.ɡraʊnd/
the things that can be seen behind the main things or people in ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-classandbackgroundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Very, very ordinary lowermiddle-classbackground: he liked all the standard repertoire, he liked chamber music.
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Each participant had lived only with her parents until her marriage, and was from amiddle-classbackground.
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They shared amiddle-classbackgroundand similar theological beliefs.
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It tends to be those from amiddle-classbackgroundwho, as parents, give a better input.
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The exam results of the school down the road, which has amiddle-classbackground, will obviously be better.
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Yet coming from amiddle-classbackgroundshe is extremely impressed by and interested in aristocratic society.
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Additionally, the princess was the first woman from amiddle-classbackgroundto marry into the imperial family.
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He didn't come from a wealthy family, but from a stablemiddle-classbackground, probably a lot like mine.
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I do not think that it is a test of whether an applicant comes from an uppermiddle-classbackgroundor working-class background that he has been to a comprehensive school.
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During the "sexenio", the party, despite its predominantlymiddle-classbackground, repeatedly took the side of the workers and adopted their ideology.
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The sight of the misery and poverty she encountered there made a deep impression on the young girl, who came from an uppermiddle-classbackground.
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The educational system was set up to service urban males ofmiddle-classbackground, but of diverse social and religious origins.
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However, when the apartments were sold, people with amiddle-classbackgroundended up as buyers, and today the area has among the highest prices in the city.
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