Definition of "upper-middle-class" [upper-middle-class]

• Occupying the upper part of the middle socioeconomic range in a society (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Secularization at least in terms of organized religion seems to be proceeding more rapidly among less educated Americans.43 If you listen carefully, hymns in American houses of worship are sung increasingly in upper-middle-class accents.44 In this respect, at least, religious institutions appear to be one more setting in which the class divergence over the last three to four decades is manifest."
• "First published in 1959 (after multiple rejections) and now reissued for its 50th anniversary, Mrs. Bridge, which crystallizes the emotions, attitudes, and inchoate yearnings of an upper-middle-class housewife in prewar Kansas City, occupies a strange limbo in American literature."
• "Poor Americans are more than three times as likely as Americans with upper-middle-class incomes to suffer physical limitations from a chronic illness."