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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:

The new bourgeoisie, which was created by the Industrial Revolution, had money to spend and wanted to travel.

the social group between the rich and the poor:

Hirsch’s art is meant to shock the bourgeoisie.

In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.


[technical]
...the suppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.

1: MIDDLE CLASS

members of the bourgeoisie

also plural in construction : members of the middle class

how the bourgeoisie are represented in the novel

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

there are also signs of the bourgeoisie  trying to return to normal.

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 …

After all, no one really needs such a bourgeois  water bottle.

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:

It's a bit bourgeois, isn't it, joining a golf club?

She’s become very bourgeois since she left college.

2. Beauty is only skin deep:


used to say that a person's character is more important than how they look

a pleasing appearance is not a guide to character.

3. Budge:
If something will not budge or you cannot budge it, it will not move:

I've tried moving the desk but it won't budge/I can't budge it.

to change your opinion or to make someone change their opinion:

I've tried persuading her, but she won't budge.

to move or cause someone or something to move:

[ I ] The demonstrators would not budge from the governor’s office.

[ T ] We tried to open a window but couldn’t budge any of them.

If someone will not budge on a matter, or if nothing budges them, they refuse to change their mind or to come to

an agreement.

Both sides say they will not budge. [VERB]

The Americans are adamant that they will not budge on this point. [VERB]

No amount of prodding will budge him

If someone or something will not budge, they will not move. If you cannot budge them, you cannot make them move.

Her mother refused to budge from London. [VERB]

The window refused to budge. [VERB]

I got a grip on the boat and pulled but I couldn't budge it

1: MOVE, SHIFT

the mule wouldn't budge

2: to give way : YIELD

wouldn't budge on the issue


Budge up:
said to someone in order to ask him or her to move so that there is room for you

4. Bucket list:

Your bucket list consists of all the things you would really like to do or see in your life.

[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.

a list of experiences one wants to have before one dies

a list of the things that a person would like to do or achieve before they die:

I have so many things on my bucket list yet to do.

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:

He was battered to death with a rifle butt.

He was battering (at/on) the door with his fists and howling.

The waves battered against the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

The burglars had battered down the door of the house (= hit it so hard that it broke and fell down).

a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk, used to make pancakes or to cover food before frying it:

fish in batter

to hit someone or something again and again:

[ T ] Thunderstorms were battering Kansas again on Sunday.

[ T ] fig. He had been battered by opponents who turned public opinion against him.

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.

...evidence that the child was being battered. [be VERB-ed]

...boys who witness fathers battering their mothers. [VERB  noun]

...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.

He battered her around the head. [VERB  noun preposition/adverb]

A karate expert battered a man to death. [VERB  noun preposition/adverb]

He was battered unconscious. [be VERB-ed]

3. VERB [usually passive]

If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather.

The country has been battered by winds of between fifty and seventy miles an hour. [be VERB-ed]

...a storm that's been battering the Northeast coastline. [VERB  noun]

BOMBARD

battering targets with artillery fire

battering the lawyer with questions

 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:

She set up a sanctuary for battered wives.

damaged, especially by being used a lot:

battered furniture/toys

covered with a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk before being cooked:

battered cod

old and damaged, or hurt:

He stuffed his battered briefcase with all of his notes.

battered ADJECTIVE

Her battered body was discovered in a field.

6. Brick-kiln:
a kiln in which bricks are baked or burned

a kiln in which blocks of clay are baked into bricks

A brick-kiln was built to process the ore.

Brick kilns workers

7. Bruit:
to tell everyone a piece of news:

It's been bruited about/abroad/around that he's going to leave the company.


(tr; often passive; usually foll by about)

to report; rumour

it was bruited about that the king was dead

spread (a report or rumour) widely.


"I didn't want to have our relationship bruited about the office"

: REPORT, RUMOR —usually used with about

word of his imminent dismissal was bruited about

8. Bullheaded:
very determined to do what you want to do, especially without considering other people's feelings

But he felt he had the bullheaded tenacity, honed by years of wrestling, to be an entrepreneur.

blindly stubborn; headstrong

determined in an obstinate and unthinking way.


"a bullheaded belief that she is right
 a bullheaded boss who won't take advice from anyone 

a bullheaded government official who refused to bend the rules even just a little bit

9. Beset:
hurt or troubled by something bad:

Many  problems  have beset the  team in  recent  months.

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

A lack of money is the greatest problem besetting the city today. 

he's been beset by a lack of self-confidence virtually his entire life

difficulties that beset society.

10. Bone idle:


UK: extremely lazy:

He never does any  exercise  - he's bone  idle.

11. Bereave:
Verb:   be bereaved

 to have a close relation or friend who has died:

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)

to deprive (of) something or someone valued, esp through death

Bereavement:
the death of a close relation or friend:

She has recently suffered a bereavement.

Bereaved:
Adjective: having a close relation or friend who has recently died:

a bereaved widow

The bereaved parents wept  openly.

  Noun: the bereaved

plural the bereaved

the person or people whose close relation or friend has recently died:

It is  generally  accepted  that the bereaved benefit from  counseling.

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