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means The property-owning middle and upper-middle class — those with enough capital or assets to live off ownership rather than just wages.

from From French bourgeoisie, rooted in bourg, meaning a fortified market town (itself from late Latin burgus, a cousin of the Germanic burg/borough you see in place names like Edinburgh or Hamburg). A bourgeois was originally simply a town-dweller — a free citizen of the walled town, as opposed to a peasant tied to rural land or a noble tied to a castle. Over centuries that 'town person' shifted meaning: from free townsfolk, to merchants and tradesmen, to the property-owning middle class Marx later sharpened into a political category — the people who own the factories rather than work in them.