Middleweight

Definitions

1. A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
   uncountable
2. A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
   countable
3. A class in between heavy and light.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
4. An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
   broadly, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“This would give⟳ the U.S. Army five parachute-capable brigades, or two "middleweight" infantry brigades, or six light⟳ infantry brigades, or six airmobile brigades in only two multicapable divisions.”

“In Ukraine, jaeger brigades are middleweight infantry—neither as light⟳ as territorial brigades, which generally lack tracked vehicles, nor as heavy as tank or mechanized brigades with their hundreds of tanks and fighting vehicles.”

“And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design⟳ company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.”

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