Antonym: proletariat. Similar words: bourgeois, surgeon, urge, surge, burger, urgent, urgency, surgery. Meaning: n. the social class between the lower and upper classes.
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31 The merchants were the leading lights of the popolo grasso or rich bourgeoisie.
32 In 1916 Pierre Nizan's efforts to gain full admission to the bourgeoisie were finally dashed.
33 The youngest and the prettiest are naturally for the exclusive use of the bourgeoisie.
34 Each of them is part and parcel of the turn-of-the-century crisis in the hegemony of the bourgeoisie.
35 Neoliberalism has been disgraced on a world scale and the haute bourgeoisie has lost some of its confidence.
36 Since they are non-producers, the bourgeoisie are therefore exploiting the proletariat, the real producers of wealth.
37 Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
38 A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie.
39 It drove the bourgeoisie, despite their interest in political and economic reform, into closer and closer collusion with the autocracy.
40 All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
41 In the end, the sociology of a world economy would find a world bourgeoisie confronting a world proletariat.
42 A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie.
43 All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.
44 It also was the revenge of the bourgeoisie on civil society.
45 Their primary client is the bourgeoisie, in its various forms of organisation.
46 Even though the real wages and living standards of the proletariat may rise, its members will become poorer in relation to the bourgeoisie.
47 So the idea of the transnational capitalist class includes fractions of both the old indigenous bourgeoisie and the comprador bourgeoisie.
48 Far more important, however, has been the merging of the new bourgeoisie with the traditional aristocracy.
49 The Yugoslavs sought a close, opportunistic alliance with the national bourgeoisie of the colonial and semicolonial countries.
50 Karl Marx said that the bourgeoisie would suffer from the carbuncles that afflicted his buttocks as he composed Das Kapital.
51 In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines.
52 For although the great mass of its membership was working class, it also embraced an increasing section of the industrial bourgeoisie.
53 Is it possible that a new bourgeoisie will emerge?
54 The urban petty bourgeoisie is a reliable ally.
55 The armed struggle was initiated by the petty bourgeoisie.
56 Don't congest your mindwiththose decadent ideas of the bourgeoisie.
57 This is the bourgeoisie humanitarianism thought beyond doubt.
58 Unity here means the united front with the bourgeoisie.
59 The comprador - bourgeoisie has long been discredited.
60 A virile bourgeoisie contributes to nation's prosperity.
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