upper middle class

 

noun

[treated as singular or plural]
  • the social group between the upper and the middle class made up of well-paid professionals, managers, and their families: the growth of white-collar employment has accounted for the expansion of the upper middle class the social pattern of marrying later in life had originally been confined to the upper middle classes

adjective

(upper-middle-class)
  • relating to the upper middle class: she seemed a typical product of her upper-middle-class background