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(US, dated) Having, or relating to, a complacently materialistic middle-class attitude.
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Alternative spelling of bougie [(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).]
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(colloquial, now rare) Bourgeois.
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(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
adj
Alternative spelling of bougie [(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).]
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(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
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A female member of the bourgeoisie; a wealthy woman
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(historical) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate.
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The state or condition of being bourgeois.
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(informal, derogatory) A member of the bourgeoisie.
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(US) Alternative spelling of bourgeois [(politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.]
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(Marxism, social sciences) An individual's awareness of their relative place within the class system of society.
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Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.
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(Marxism) Based on social class.
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(Marxism) A section of an indigenous middle class allied with foreign investors, multinational corporations, bankers, and military interests.
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(transitive) To make bourgeois; to gentrify.
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The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.
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Made or become bourgeois
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(Marxism) An impoverished segment of society that may be forced by necessity to work for a low wage.
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Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
adj
(Marxism) Of or pertaining to the lumpenbourgeoisie.
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(Marxism) A middle or upper class that supports colonial masters and has little collective self-awareness or economic base.
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A member of the lumpenproletariat.
adj
(Marxism) Of or pertaining to the lumpenproletariat.
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(Marxism) The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.
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(Marxism) All those things with the aid of which man acts upon the subject of his labor, and transforms it.
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(Marxism) A section of an indigenous entrepreneurial class interested in an independent political and economic development of the country.
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The modern, postindustrial proletariat, characterized by passive and uncritical acceptance of prevailing consumption patterns regardless of the level of their income
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(derogatory) The privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and Communist Party functionaries that arose in states that followed the Soviet style of communism.
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Of or relating to the petite bourgeoisie.
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Alternative spelling of petit bourgeois [Of or relating to the petite bourgeoisie.]
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(Marxism) An aspirational socio-economic class comprising small-scale capitalists such as small-business owners, managers, and some skilled professionals.
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Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.
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(Marxism) A social class of that bourgeoisie that typically works alongside their employees if they have any, exemplified by shopkeepers and professionals.
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Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois [Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.]
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(politics, derogatory) Someone who is paid to work with the poor, especially one who profits at the expense of the poor; A welfare worker.
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(informal) A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
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Of or relating to the proletariat.
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(uncountable, rare) Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.
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(Marxism) The social process whereby people move from being either employers, unemployed, or self-employed to being employed as wage labour by employers.
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(Marxism) Wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
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Alternative spelling of proletariat [(often derogatory, also figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.]
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Of or relating to a protoproletariat.
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A group of unskilled labourers with the potential of becoming a proletariat.
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(derogatory) Synonym of new class
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(economics) Salary earners as a class or group, often as opposed to wage earners.
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Alternative form of semiproletariat [The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.]
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Having been made somewhat proletarian.
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The class of marginalized workers who lack regular employment, such as working peasants, pedlars, small handicrafts makers, and the underemployed.
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(politics) A class of people ranking below the proletariat.
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(Marxism) The social form of a commodity as a representation of value (socially necessary labour time).
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(politics, derogatory) The class of people who live on welfare payments.
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The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
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(literary) Alternative form of épater le bourgeois [(literary) To scandalize, provoke the middle class.]
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