businessperson, bourgeois (noun)

a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

bourgeois, burgher (adj)

a member of the middle class

bourgeois (adj)

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

bourgeois, conservative, materialistic (adj)

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

"a bourgeois mentality"

bourgeois (adj)

belonging to the middle class

bourgeois (Noun)

The middle class.

bourgeois (Noun)

An individual member of the middle class.

bourgeois (Noun)

A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.

bourgeois (Noun)

An individual member of the bourgeoisie, one of the three estates.

bourgeois (Noun)

Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.

bourgeois (Adjective)

Of or relating to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.

bourgeois (Adjective)

Belonging to the middle class.

bourgeois (Adjective)

Conventional, conservative and materialistic.

bourgeois (Adjective)

Of or relating to capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

bourgeois

The bourgeoisie ( (listen) BOORZH-wah-ZEE, French: [buʁʒwazi] (listen)) is a social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class. They are distinguished from, and traditionally contrasted with, the proletariat by their affluence, and their great cultural and financial capital. They are sometimes divided into a petty (petite), middle (moyenne), large (grande), upper (haute), and ancient (ancienne) bourgeoisie and collectively designated as "the bourgeoisie". The bourgeoisie in its original sense is intimately linked to the existence of cities, recognized as such by their urban charters (e.g., municipal charters, town privileges, German town law), so there was no bourgeoisie apart from the citizenry of the cities. Rural peasants came under a different legal system. In Marxist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.