middle-class family
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmiddle-classandfamily
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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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family
noun
uk/ˈfæm.əl.i/us/ˈfæm.əl.i/
a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-classandfamilyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Nor should one suppose that all was happiness and harmony in themiddle-classfamily.
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He came from amiddle-classfamily.
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Despite exhaustive catalogues of the many rooms amiddle-classfamilymight strive to have, however, middle-class women invariably spent most of their time in their drawing-rooms.
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I was brought up in a lowermiddle-classfamily, and the idea of waste was extremely distasteful to my parents.
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It is beyond our capacity, as amiddle-classfamily, to pay for such services.
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In one home there is a comfortablemiddle-classfamilyof two with an income of over £35 a week.
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It is the assumption in amiddle-classfamilythat a boy or girl will stay at school till 18 and then go to university.
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What it means is that the smallmiddle-classfamilyunit has been more or less banned as settlers.
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I take my own case, that of a poormiddle-classfamily.
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It was originally, to use the estate agents' modern terminology, a goodmiddle-classfamilyhouse, a desirable residence.
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What happens when amiddle-classfamilyliving with "in-laws" is able to buy a house?
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Take anymiddle-classfamilythat send their child to a small privately managed school.
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Contrast that constituent of mine with a reasonably prosperous or averagemiddle-classfamilywith a son or daughter wishing to educate himself or herself.
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