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midrange

midrange

1 3.9
A product or price level between cheap and expensive
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪdˌreɪndʒ/
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  • The midrange vacuum cleaners offer good performance without the premium price of high-end models.

Examples

  • An average person could obviously afford only a single service in the midrange, and in that range, there were only a few clonelike choices.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Vera had always said a lady ordered from the midrange of the menu, but there were no prices on Aline's.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The prevalence of such disorders was in the lower to midrange of that found in other homeless youth studies that employed standardized diagnostic procedures.

    Academic text (2000)
  • A country that had long been purposely low-profile from both the U.S. and Mexican perspectives now vaulted quickly to the midrange of U.S. military assistance.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The Oracle server operates on a Hewlett-Packard 9000 K-class computer, which is a midrange machine.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Would I recommend this arrangement—a high-end and a midrange CAD system—to other companies, based on the Lorenz experience?

    Academic text (1998)
  • His thermal and packaging leadership has enabled the packaging strategy of Sun's high-performance SPARC CPUs, and the architectural and thermal optimization of Sun's midrange computers.

    Academic text (2003)
  • When shopping for a new smartphone, many users choose options in the midrange price category for a balance of features and affordability.

  • Investors often look for stocks in the midrange sector, where companies tend to have steady growth potential.

Synonyms

midscale
vsmidrange
4.9

A hotel or restaurant with medium prices and services between budget and luxury

covers a broader category across products, services, or prices between low and high

How Expensive

luxury
322 4.2
midrange
1 3.9
budget
2.1

Surface Forms

midrange singular
midranges plural

Morphology

midrange = mid + range (transparent) = mid + range

Compound formation 'mid' + 'range' maps directly to the notion of a middle category between low and high.

Etymology

Midrange comes from mid 'middle' and range 'area' or 'span', like midday, which helps you remember it. So a midrange product or price is the one that sits between the cheap and the expensive options.