as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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More recently, a bourgeois elite, which feels besieged by the increasingly assertive have-nots, has begun casting around for sturdier leaders to replace its tainted idol, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose economic reforms, once much loved, are now widely regarded as populist sops to the poor.
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Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
Their goal was a wild plan to overturn the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, to topple the socialist People’s Republic of China, and to establish a bourgeois republic that would be anticommunist, antisocialist, and in complete vassalage to the Western powers.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2019
And yet, even as his government cracked down on bourgeois medicine, Mao pursued an antidisease program directed at schistosomiasis, or snail fever, an infectious disease caused by a species of parasitic flatworm.
—Robert Peckham, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020
Antwerp, Belgium: Rubens' Baroque Sanctuary Antwerp and Peter Paul Rubens share a symbiotic legacy, with the Flemish master finding his muse in the city's bustling streets and bourgeois salons.
—Paul Jebara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
Their goal was a wild plan to overturn the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, to topple the socialist People’s Republic of China, and to establish a bourgeois republic that would be anticommunist, antisocialist, and in complete vassalage to the Western powers.
—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2019
And yet, even as his government cracked down on bourgeois medicine, Mao pursued an antidisease program directed at schistosomiasis, or snail fever, an infectious disease caused by a species of parasitic flatworm.
—Robert Peckham, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020
Antwerp, Belgium: Rubens' Baroque Sanctuary Antwerp and Peter Paul Rubens share a symbiotic legacy, with the Flemish master finding his muse in the city's bustling streets and bourgeois salons.
—Paul Jebara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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