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/ˌbo͝orZHwäˈzē/,
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bourgeoisies, plural;
  1. The middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes

  2. (in Marxist contexts) The capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production

  1. middle class: the social class between the lower and upper classes
  2. (bourgeois) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
  3. (bourgeois) businessperson: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
  4. (bourgeois) a member of the middle class
  5. In sociology and political science, bourgeoisie (adjective: bourgeois) describes a range of groups across history. In the Western world, between the late 18th century to now, the bourgeoisie is a social class characterized by their ownership of capital and their related culture. ...
  6. a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate; The capitalist class
  7. (BOURGEOIS) [French] an address of formality or politeness in France from the 16th C., usually for a non-noble person. ...
  8. (Bourgeois) A person who is a member of the bourgeoisie, or middle social class, and who is characterized by owning property and having an interest in obtaining material possessions.
  9. (Bourgeois) In the context of the Revolution, the term is used of those relatively wealthy and politically active members of the middle classes, the professionals and gentlemen of independent means.
  10. (Bourgeois) Term for the ruling class. Originated in French revolutionary terminology.
  11. (bourgeois) (boor-ZWAH) French: middle-class; common
  12. (bourgeois) The marxist term for the middle classes whose interest it is to preserve the status quo. The term has therefore come to stand for conventionality per se.
  13. (bourgeois) originally, a freeman of a medieval town ("bourg"). A self-employed person, as a shopkeeper or businessman. A person whose beliefs, attitudes, and practices are simple and practical. For some reason or another most revolutionaries want to hang them from lampposts. ...
  14. A term meaning capitalist employed by Karl Marx.
  15. Originally, the inhabitants of a walled city, that is, merchants, craftsmen and professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and professors. In later usage, it was those members of the Third Estate who were not peasants.  It has now come to mean any member of the middle class.
  16. In early modern Europe, the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing, finance, commerce, and allied professions. (p. 459)
  17. French for capitalists. Marx, Engels and others of their time were devoted students of the capitalist French revolution of 1789 and the Paris Commune of 1871. They used several French words from those studies. ...
  18. Originally French term for middle class town dwellers, used since early 19th century to mean members of capitalist class.
  19. those who "own the means of production" and buy labour power from the proletariat, thus exploiting the proletariat. The bourgeoisie may be further subdivided into the very wealthy bourgeoisie and the petit bourgeoisie. ...
  20. In a narrow sense, the term used by Marxists to refer to the owners of property in capitalist society. More loosely, it has been used to describe the middle and upper classes, who are both presumed to support the capitalist system.
  21. The class of rich capitalists who used vile methods such as “free trade”, advertising, and inheritance to steal obscene shares of the national wealth that belongs equally to each one of us. The only good bourgeois is a dead one!
  22. Karl Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means to produce wealth (pg.112)
  23. One of Marx's opposed classes; owners of the means of production (factories, mines, large farms, and other sources of subsistence).
  24. A Marxist term for the wealthy ruling class in society. Those who own the wealth, and run the businesses, in society. They are a small minority in society. They exploit the work (labour) of the workers, to gain a profit. ...