middle-class household
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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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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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(Definition ofmiddle-classandhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Members of the working class were not only incorporated into the body of themiddle-classhousehold, but they were also crucial to its workings.
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As themiddle-classhouseholdbecame increasingly dependent on industrially produced goods and services, the purchase and ownership of objects grew more central to the formation of middle-class identity.
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In the average comfortable,middle-classhouseholdtea is only one of a very large number of possible drinks.
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He grew up in a modest,middle-classhousehold.
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Income inequality has reducedmiddle-classhouseholdincome growth.
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The food of amiddle-classhouseholdis rice, nachni bread, curry, and vegetables, for every day, with vadas on special occasions.
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Anything around $40,000 is seen as the lower end of themiddle-classhouseholdincome.
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Most servants perceived moving from their rural background to urban middle-class households as a huge transition.
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Hoffman was raised in amiddle-classhouseholdand had two younger siblings.
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How does the stigmatized situation of doorkeepers and their families within middle-class households influence their interpretation of gender and class?
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Windows 95 became so popular that in developed countries nearly everymiddle-classhouseholdhad at least one computer.
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From the latter part of the nineteenth century, the migration fields of servants widened, with women more often serving in middle-class households in the growing large cities.
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The preservation of the physical character of the area was clearly important to keeping and attracting middle-class households to the area.
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Less expensive cloth paintings ("tchlein") were more common in middle-class households, and records show a strong interest in domestically owned religious panel paintings.
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The dinnerware became something of a status symbol for late 1930s and pre-war 1940s middle-class households.
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