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medium-sized

American  
[mee-dee-uhm-sahyzd] / ˈmi di əmˌsaɪzd /

adjective

  1. neither very large nor very small.

    a medium-sized house.


Etymology

Origin of medium-sized

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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It uses around 16 tonnes of flour to produce up to 40,000 loaves a day, which sounds like a lot but, compared with the giant bakers, is still a medium-sized business.

From BBC

Apprenticeships for people under the age of 25 at small and medium-sized businesses will be fully funded as part of the package, removing the 5% that they currently have to pay.

From BBC

Italy's fashion suppliers are predominately small- and medium-sized companies, tens of thousands of whom have shuttered in recent years, according to industry associations, amid a luxury downturn and higher production costs.

From Barron's

As part of that shift, Laurentian Bank will sell its retail and small and medium-sized enterprise, or SME, banking businesses to the National Bank of Canada NA -0.50%decrease; red down pointing triangle .

From The Wall Street Journal

Even though the numbers make it sound incredibly large, Prof Ramesh describes it as a "medium-sized" one.

From BBC