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| bour·geoi·sie [ br waa z ] |
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1. middle-class people: affluent middle-class people characterized as conventional, conservative, or materialistic in outlook
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2. exploitative middle class: the social class that, according to Marxist theory, owns the means of producing wealth and is regarded as exploiting the working class
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| [Early 18th century. < French< bourgeois (see bourgeois)] |
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