Meaning of Middling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.
2. Preceded by the: people of moderate means; members of the middle class.
   in-plural

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Examples

“Middlings are less likely to adopt worker commitment than are Leaders, but the two groups are equally likely to adopt organisational responsibility. […] Middlings have not been able to effectively implement innovative environmental programmes and proactive social programmes.”

“The war had been significantly financed by the poor and the middling, who purchased bonds that quickly devalued from wartime inflation; debt speculators had bought much of this debt at a fraction of the original cost.”

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