Middleweight

Quick meaning: Middleweight is a noun meaning (countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc.

Meaning

(countable) A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A class in between heavy and light.
2. (countable, business, by extension) An employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
3. (uncountable) A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports

Example Sentences

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.

This would give the U.S. Army five parachute-capable brigades, or two "middleweight" infantry brigades, or six light infantry brigades, or six airmobile brigades in only two multicapable divisions.

In Ukraine, jaeger brigades are middleweight infantry—neither as light as territorial brigades, which generally lack tracked vehicles, nor as heavy as tank or mechanized brigades with their hundreds of tanks and fighting vehicles.

Word Forms

• middleweights

Synonyms for middleweight

Depending on context, synonyms include heavy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heavy, weight, medium, midcard, middler, middling.

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