adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a middle-class upbringing
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She had a comfortable middle-class upbringing.
a middle-class/working-class etc area (= where a particular class of people live )
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She was born in a working-class area of London.
a working-class/middle-class background
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I came from a very poor working-class background.
a working-class/middle-class occupation
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Teaching is regarded as a middle-class occupation.
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Working-class occupations may be divided into skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled.
an upper-class/middle-class/working-class accent
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Sebastian spoke with an upper-class accent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
predominantly
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They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists' arguments, for example.
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Not surprisingly, the result has been to recruit predominantly middle-class unemployed people into mainstream programmes.
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The predominantly middle-class character of the suburbs and the commuting population was to have important social consequences.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, psychologists strongly criticized the discipline's predominantly middle-class constitution.
■ NOUN
area
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Gbagbo won support in middle-class areas of the capital, and in the north-east of the country.
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By contrast the middle-class area has a relatively stable and prosperous population.
background
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This is confirmed by the following table of world-class champions and contenders from middle-class backgrounds .
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He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.
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Such as latch-key kids from middle-class backgrounds .
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As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background .
child
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These schools now provided a free alternative to expensive private education - so that the number of middle-class children in them rose.
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The system was, perhaps irreversibly, biased towards the selection of middle-class children .
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The result for the middle-class child was an increased state of dependence, longer than that experienced by the previous generation.
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I felt intimidated at first because I'd never been in a school with so many middle-class children .
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Its children taunted nice little middle-class children in school uniform who strayed into its terrain.
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Sociologists had long been interested in why many working-class pupils did not do as well as middle-class children at school.
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And yet proportionately more middle-class children enter grammar schools.
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It has now been abolished, mainly because a number of middle-class children failed it and were sent to nonacademic schools.
citizen
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The middle-class citizen becomes the hero.
culture
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The values of privacy and the values of home are closely interwoven, especially in contemporary middle-class culture .
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But middle-class culture would probably prevent you from doing it; both you and he have too much to lose.
family
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She ran off with breakfast for her respectable middle-class family .
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Almost the same number are Bengali children of middle-class families , who attend the day school.
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Grammar school pupils were drawn disproportionately from middle-class families .
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Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
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We both come from those middle-income, middle-class families .
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Magazines of the day published architectural plans for craftsman bungalows that were affordable to working-class as well as middle-class families .
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Irene the heroine is a journalist from an upper middle-class family engaged to be married to an army officer.
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She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family .
home
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World middleweight champions Mickey Walker and Joey Giardello both came from solid middle-class homes , but fought like cavemen in the ring.
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What is one to make of those ordinary middle-class homes with ten or a dozen servants?
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Purists could be utterly ruthless about the menace working-class immorality posed to the middle-class home .
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The advantage is undeniably there; but what of the ever-increasing number from middle-class homes without books?
life
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The world he deals with, upper middle-class life from the 1920s onward, is his own world.
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They not only portrayed middle-class life and its problems but attacked the corruption and depravity of the nobility.
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The comfortable middle-class life she had enjoyed fell apart when parents John and Marie split up.
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It is one of several comedias lacrimosas which glorify middle-class life by presenting the interaction between this class and the nobility.
man
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Here is a black middle-class man speaking: Professional blacks are treated as rare specimens by most of their white colleagues.
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Completed questionnaires of 786 middle-class men were subjected to comprehensive statistical analysis.
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None of the middle-class men had incomes below £30 per week and over half had incomes in excess of £60.
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In the experience of friends who canvass for the Labour party, old, white, middle-class men are the rudest.
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The middle-class man , on the other hand, could predict a rising income for much of his life.
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As Reich puts it: The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer, in the authoritarian state.
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Nonstandard speech is appropriated to signify masculinity by even middle-class men .
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Their junior commanders were mainly young urban middle-class men , the sort who had formed the audience for Sukarno.
parent
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Pre-school facilities in general are mostly used by children of middle-class parents .
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Conversely, if middle-class parents stay, if they stay and fight, they can turn things around.
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They weep openly and harrowingly, unlike middle-class parents who are seldom willing to appear, seeing their grief as more private.
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Today middle-class parents read books on toddler development, attend parent workshops, and learn how to talk so children will listen.
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The children of some middle-class parents have taken up working-class occupations.
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For Gore, the disenfranchised are middle-class parents having trouble paying their kids' college loans.
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For middle-class parents at least, however, a new power is taking his place: the equally authoritarian medical expert.
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Urban middle-class parents have a choice of living in the city or in the suburbs.
people
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For example, most middle-class people do not belong to close-knit networks at all.
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But in their economic desperation, many business and middle-class people have slipped backward, politically.
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Our institutions were set up by middle-class people and the staff, even when their own origins are working-class, reflect those values.
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Harriet times, middle-class people skied not at resorts but at local hills.
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The camera reinforced journalistic and literary accounts of aspects of social life which had rarely been seen or experienced by middle-class people .
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They drive Ford Tauruses to the picket lines, as if they were normal middle-class people .
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This is all because middle-class people , the polls say, want to see the rich suffer first.
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It shows that nuclear power workers are nice, middle-class people who wouldn't hurt the environment for anything.
suburb
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We pull up at the door of the drum player's house in a middle-class suburb of La Paz.
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In this middle-class suburb lived many of her old students from Entally.
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An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter.
tax
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To keep campaign pledges to make education his top priority, Clinton wants two new middle-class tax breaks for college tuition.
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In public, Mr Clinton also still claims to want a middle-class tax cut.
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His proposal fulfilled a 1992 campaign pledge to provide a middle-class tax cut.
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And even on taxes , Bush actually made a case for the Democrats' middle-class tax cuts, not his own.
value
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But neither passage is really written from a working-class viewpoint, for they impose middle-class values on working-class taste.
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Schools, he argues emphasise and embody middle-class values .
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For all his seeming rebellion against middle-class values , he remains essentially middle-class.
voter
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Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates.
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In the past year, the president has become the champion of government programs that middle-class voters want.
woman
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In common with Butler and Florence Nightingale, illness related to the strain experienced by middle-class women who moved into the public sphere.
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One precise category is aimed at: middle-class women who have had access to education and valorizing salaried jobs.
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The hysterical woman was the middle-class woman of leisure deprived of productive labour and imprisoned in dependence on her family.
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Although opportunities were limited for middle-class women , they did exist.
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They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists' arguments, for example.
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It emerged in no small measure because middle-class women marched into the work force, leaving their own kids behind.
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Various authors have suggested or claimed that working-class women are satisfied with housework while middle-class women are not.
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Both hysterics and anorexics have almost invariably been middle-class women or girls.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc
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Cellulite is a peculiarly female problem in which the hormone oestrogen plays a part.
the black/Jewish/middle-class etc vote
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Another astute electoral move helped to win 70% of the black vote for Kennedy.
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Ashcroft also addressed concerns raised about allegations of voter intimidation and other problems in Florida that may have depressed the black vote .
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Christie Whitman got 25 percent of the black vote in New Jersey.
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George Allen received 22 percent of the black vote .
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One of the keys to the Republican victory was the black vote .
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Q: Can the Democratic Party afford to take the black vote for granted?
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The drop in the black vote was estimated to be more than one hundred thousand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a middle-class neighborhood
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a middle-class view of life
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The audience was mainly middle-class men.
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They live in a middle-class neighbourhood on the edge of town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment.
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College is more expensive and more critical to middle-class status than in the past.
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I should add that these three incidents happened to intelligent, middle-class patients in hospitals with international reputations.
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Its members brought the same middle-class standards to black adoptions that they used for white adoptions.
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Most of his patients were middle-class women who suffered from hysteria.
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She knew how much the pay packet meant to that middle-class family.
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The middle-class YCs had been far more serious at school than Willis' lads.
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The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid: young, middle-class and white.