embourgeoisement

Embourgeoisement is defined as the process of moving up to middle-class.

(noun)

An example of embourgeoisement is poor factory workers unionizing and making a higher wage and joining the middle-class.

See embourgeoisement in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the process of becoming middle-class in economic status, social attitudes, etc.

See embourgeoisement in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Conversion to bourgeois values, loyalties, or tastes.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from bourgeois, bourgeois; see bourgeois

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