middle-income

[mid-l-in-kuhm]

adjective

1. of or relating to those with an average income within the overall population.

Example Sentences

Brendan Foley, CEO of McCormick, the spice company, said consumers, especially in low- to middle-income households, are shopping more strategically—making more-frequent trips with fewer items per basket.

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Li is part of a growing wave reshaping China’s consumption landscape: middle-income shoppers outside Beijing and Shanghai who are gravitating toward what marketers call “little luxury”—artisan cosmetics, premium apparel, and imported skin care.

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But it also recently began offering “no-loan financial-aid packages,” which include grants that don’t have to be repaid, to students from middle-income families who are often too wealthy for other types of aid but can’t afford full price.

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For its first freshman class offered the aid this fall, Notre Dame said there was an increase in students from middle-income families compared with last year’s freshman class.

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The vast majority of Californians receive federal subsidies to lower their premiums, including many middle-income families who had become eligible when Congress expanded the financial assistance in 2021.

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