Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Bourgeoisie:: Theory Middle-Class Wealth
Bourgeoisie:: Theory Middle-Class Wealth
1. Bourgeoisie:
(in Marxism) the part of society, including employers and people who run large companies, that has most of
the money and takes advantage of ordinary workers:
Hirsch’s art is meant to shock the bourgeoisie.
1: MIDDLE CLASS
members of the bourgeoisie
2: a class or group of people with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest : a social
order dominated by capitalists or bourgeois
These men and women were members of the Jewish grand bourgeoisie whose immigrant forefathers had acquired great fortunes
in banking and trade and moved to France because of the freedoms and business opportunities the country offered
the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
"the rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century"
(in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
"the conflict of interest between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat"
Bourgeois:
1a: a middle-class person
b: BURGHER
2: a person with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest : CAPITALIST
3plural : BOURGEOISIE
Even before the 19th century was over, successive waves of collection mania had rolled across Europe and America,
submerging country homes and bourgeois town houses in ferns and faux-Grecian ruins …
1. ADJECTIVE
If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider
them typical of conventional middle-class people.
[disapproval]
He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision.
2. ADJECTIVE
Marxists use bourgeois when referring to the capitalist system and to the social class that owns most of the wealth in that system.
[technical]
...the modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society.
His privileged bourgeois family insisted on a good education.
belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the rich and
the poor) especially in supporting existing customs and values, or in having a strong interest in money and possessions:
3. Budge:
If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move:
an agreement.
The Americans are adamant that they will not budge on this point. [VERB]
If someone or something will not budge, they will not move. If you cannot budge them, you cannot make them move.
1: MOVE, SHIFT
4. Bucket list:
[informal]
He made a quick visit to the Taj Mahal just to cross it off his bucket list.
The singer said that performing a James Bond theme tune was definitely on her bucket list.
5. Batter:
to hit and behave violently towards a person, especially a woman or child, repeatedly over a long period of time, or
to hit something with force many times:
fish in batter
tense, past participle battered
1. VERB
If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
...battered husbands. [VERB-ed]
battering UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop.
2. VERB
To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object.
3. VERB [usually passive]
The country has been battered by winds of between fifty and seventy miles an hour. [be VERB-ed]
BOMBARD
BATTER implies a series of blows that bruise deeply, deform, or mutilate. an old ship battered by fierce storms
Battered:
hurt by being repeatedly hit:
battered furniture/toys
battered cod
old and damaged, or hurt:
battered ADJECTIVE
6. Brick-kiln:
a kiln in which bricks are baked or burned
7. Bruit:
to tell everyone a piece of news:
to report; rumour
8. Bullheaded:
very determined to do what you want to do, especially without considering other people's feelings
blindly stubborn; headstrong
a bullheaded government official who refused to bend the rules even just a little bit
9. Beset:
hurt or troubled by something bad:
If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them
severely.
The country is beset by severe economic problems.
The discussions were beset with difficulties.
TROUBLE, HARASS: inflation besets the economy
11. Bereave:
Verb: be bereaved
Everyone who has been bereaved has to find his or her own way of coping.
be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
"she had recently been bereaved"
(usually foll by of)
Bereavement:
the death of a close relation or friend:
Bereaved:
Adjective: having a close relation or friend who has recently died:
a bereaved widow
plural the bereaved
the person or people whose close relation or friend has recently died:
12. :
13. :
14. :
15. :
16. :
17. :
18. :
19. :
2. :