middle-class citizen

collocation in English

meaningsofmiddle-classandcitizen

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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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citizen
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/us
/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən/
a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-classandcitizenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many of the arguments were no longer about a distant other, they were about themiddle-classcitizenand his or her children.
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Micawber's letters do not transform him, as the letter-writers predicted, into a respectedmiddle-classcitizen.
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There was once a highwayman who met amiddle-classcitizenon a heath.
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In both cities the middle-class citizens voted against an expansion of local government.
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Progressive regimes respond to the needs of lower- and middle-class citizens and environmental groups to keep things as they are, rather than to economic growth.
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Its members perceived the movement as being very honest, as it was founded by a small group of modest middle-class citizens.
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New houses are springing up as a township is now being built to cater for middle-class citizens who have tired of the city life.
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Middle-class citizens continued settling there, joined by carpenters and builders who bought several lots at once, put up a row, lived in one unit and rented out the others.
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This particular election has been said to have changed the politics of the city, initiating a divide in ideology and interests between the upper-class and middle-class citizens of the city.
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Most houses were built for middle-class citizens.
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