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BOURGEOIS

Definition:

[noun] a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
Synonyms: businessperson
[noun] a member of the middle class
Synonyms: burgher
[adjective] (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class
[adjective] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
Synonyms: conservative, materialistic
[adjective] belonging to the middle class