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middle-ground en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of middle ground.
    • In fact, in presenting the home life of these people I have been at some pains to avoid the extreme of privation, taking the cases just as they came to hand on the safer middle-ground of average earnings. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 133:

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middle-grounds Number=Plur lexicographic