lower middle class

lower middle class
n [sing + sing/pl v] (also the lower middle classes [pl]) n
the class of people in British society, especially in the past, between working class and middle class, such as office workers or shopkeepers, but not professional people.

a lower-middle-class suburban neighbourhood

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