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| bour·geois [ boor w, br w ] |
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1. conventional: associated with affluent middle-class people, who are often characterized as conventional, conservative, or materialistic in outlook
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2. capitalist: according to Marxist theory, relating to the social class that owns the means of producing wealth and is regarded as exploiting the working class
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| [Mid-16th century. < French, "citizen of a city or borough" < Latin burgus "castle, borough" < Germanic] |
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  bour·geois noun |
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