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| 1. | [ noun ] (business) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | |
| Synonyms: | businessperson | |
| Related terms: | capitalist businessman merchant entrepreneur agent accountant supplier exporter shipper importer businesswoman account_executive | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] belonging to the middle class | |
| Related terms: | middle-class middle-class | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | |
| Synonyms: | materialistic conservative | |
| Examples: | "a bourgeois mentality" |
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| Related terms: | middle-class middle-class | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | |
| Related terms: | capitalistic | |
| 5. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1989 | |
| 6. | [ noun ] a member of the middle class | |
| Synonyms: | burgher | |
| Related terms: | commoner petit_bourgeois middle_class | |
| Similar spelling: |
bourgeoisie borges Borgeson Burges Bourgogne burgess Burgeson bourguignon |
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