upper-lower-class

1. 1.

   occupying the upper part of the lower class

   Similarlower-class

Questions about upper-lower-class

What does upper-lower-class mean?

upper-lower-class means "occupying the upper part of the lower class".

How many syllables are in upper-lower-class?

upper-lower-class has 5 syllables: up-per--lo-wer--class. The stress falls on "lo".

Is upper-lower-class a common word?

upper-lower-class is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.