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Definition 2024
middleweight
middleweight
English
Noun
middleweight (countable and uncountable, plural middleweights)
- (uncountable) A weight division in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
- (countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
- (countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
- 2009, Guy Julier, Liz Moor, Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice
- And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.
- 2009, Guy Julier, Liz Moor, Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice