The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
A shift to bourgeois values and practices.
The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.
The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.