Meaning of elite in English:
elite
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noun
1treated as singular or plural A select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society.
‘the elite of Britain's armed forces’- ‘an elite athlete’
- ‘elite colleges and universities’
- ‘an elite combat force’
- ‘In fact, Murray comments that societal elites were less likely to be religious.’
- ‘It is a model strictly for people who are into hierarchical societies with bossy elites who like to display their power.’
- ‘Town life also presented new challenges of economic and social organization to urban elites.’
- ‘This was replaced from the 17th to 19th centuries by the noble and educated elites.’
- ‘One should bear in mind that the media and intellectual elites generally have their particular agendas.’
- ‘Political parties tend to follow ethnic lines and draw their leaders from educated elites.’
- ‘Highly sophisticated elites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce.’
- ‘They reflect the values of the elites, and not their larger working class constituency.’
- ‘One should bear in mind that the media and the intellectual elites generally have their particular agendas.’
- ‘Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites.’
- ‘The traditional elites were relegated into the background several decades ago.’
- ‘There is a growing tendency to conflate the interests of the governing elites with those of the nation.’
- ‘But we view our own political elites, fighting against them, with more than a hint of suspicion.’
- ‘While the regime worked with the elites, it proved helpless when the people took to the streets.’
- ‘The elites in those countries look at us and marvel at what we show is possible, even if they do think we have had it easy.’
- ‘As he put it himself on the weekend, he will have finally defeated the elites.’
- ‘He says the action is in the cities, where urban elites are the future of the country.’
- ‘Yet the poor, especially, need the power of democracy to defend themselves against corrupt elites.’
- ‘For Serbian elites it is the international community that must not be let down, rather than the electorate.’
- ‘You all look so good when you cluster in little groups forming elite social circles.’
best, pick, cream, flower, nonpareil, electView synonyms- 1.1A group or class of people seen as having the most power and influence in a society, especially on account of their wealth or privilege.‘the country's governing elite’
- ‘like most commodities, it is largely controlled by the elite’
- ‘In recent decades, successive governments have carried out policies aimed at benefiting a tiny privileged elite at the expense of the broad mass of working people.’
- ‘Unless you're a CEO or a millionaire I don't see how you can defend a party whose policy benefits benefits the elite over the general populace.’
- ‘Over the past decade, the Western political elite has experienced a profound disorientation.’
- ‘The political elite now regards him as beyond the pale.’
- ‘This issue owes less to public prejudice than to the conceit of the liberal elite.’
- ‘It's another show of political correctness from the liberal elite.’
- ‘The liberal elite showed it was way out of touch even before the election.’
- ‘Part of this strategy was to portray the press as members of a liberal elite that was out of touch with these real Americans.’
- ‘The report estimated the net worth of the world's wealthy elite at 30.2 trillion dollars.’
- ‘Foreign debts have also risen faster than population but most of the cash went into the pockets of a wealthy elite.’
- ‘The oil is owned by the state but had been controlled by an elite who kept the profits amongst themselves.’
- ‘This political apathy enabled the ruling elites to exercise their authority unconstrained by popular pressure.’
- ‘The world's super-rich elites are using tax avoidance techniques to hoard huge amounts of wealth.’
- ‘We are ruled by an elite where money talks louder than morals and ethics.’
- ‘In poor countries with unstable democracies, too little oil money comes back to benefit the people and is instead being spent on maintaining political and personal power of the ruling elite.’
- ‘The 1960s precipitated a major crisis of confidence among the ruling elites.’
- ‘The consequent reduction of the public sector puts even more power in the hands of the corporate elite.’
- ‘What we need is a democratic economy where decisions on what is needed are made by the people and not by the corporate elite.’
- ‘When it comes to vital resources like water and land, free market is the dominant mantra of the world's financial elite.’
- ‘Polls show that the British people are inexorably losing faith in their governing elites and institutions.’
- ‘He feared that by endorsing Sinclair he would alienate the banking and industrial elite, which he was attempting to win to the side of his New Deal policies.’
2mass noun A size of letter in typewriting, with 12 characters to the inch (about 4.7 to the centimetre).
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