middle-market UK US adjective [before noun] (also mid-market)
► COMMERCE used to describe a product or service that is neither very cheap nor very expensive when compared to other products or services of the same type: »
The middle-market retail group has been blamed for failing to modernize its stores to meet customer needs.
► WORKPLACE used to describe companies that are neither very big nor very small: »
The new rules have hit middle-market companies of between 20 and 499 employees.
► COMMERCE used to describe people who usually buy things that are neither very cheap nor very expensive: middle-market consumer/customer »
The company's success is a result of its simple strategy of selling good-quality clothes and homewares to a strictly middle-market consumer.
Financial and business terms. 2012.