| bourgeois | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bourgeois, businessperson | a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise. |
| ~ capitalist | a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business). |
| ~ accountant, comptroller, controller | someone who maintains and audits business accounts. |
| ~ account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative | someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business. |
| ~ broker, agent, factor | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission. |
| ~ businessman, man of affairs | a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive). |
| ~ businesswoman | a female businessperson. |
| ~ enterpriser, entrepreneur | someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it. |
| ~ exporter | a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale). |
| ~ importer | someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country). |
| ~ merchandiser, merchant | a businessperson engaged in retail trade. |
| ~ shipper | someone who ships goods. |
| ~ provider, supplier | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. |
| n. (person) | 2. bourgeois, burgher | a member of the middle class. |
| ~ bourgeoisie, middle class | the social class between the lower and upper classes. |
| ~ common man, common person, commoner | a person who holds no title. |
| ~ petit bourgeois | a member of the lower middle class. |
| adj. | 3. bourgeois | (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class. |
| ~ capitalistic, capitalist | favoring or practicing capitalism. |
| adj. | 4. bourgeois, conservative, materialistic | conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.; "a bourgeois mentality" |
| ~ middle-class | occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy. |
| adj. | 5. bourgeois | belonging to the middle class. |
| ~ middle-class | occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy. |
| punk | | |
| n. (person) | 1. goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| ~ bully | a hired thug. |
| ~ criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| n. (substance) | 2. punk | substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks). |
| ~ igniter, ignitor, lighter | a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire. |
| n. (substance) | 3. kindling, punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood | material for starting a fire. |
| ~ igniter, ignitor, lighter | a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire. |
| n. (person) | 4. punk, punk rocker | a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture. |
| ~ punks | a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes). |
| ~ adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager | a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. |
| n. (communication) | 5. punk, punk rock | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock. |
| ~ rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock | a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western.; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll." |
| adj. | 6. bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny | of very poor quality; flimsy. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
Recent comments
2 weeks 5 days ago
6 weeks 6 days ago
8 weeks 2 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
23 weeks 4 days ago
24 weeks 2 days ago
28 weeks 3 days ago
29 weeks 2 days ago
30 weeks 1 day ago