noun
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A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
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Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
Examples of elites in a Sentence
Being educated in the United States has long been a mark of distinction for the elites of other nations.
But the notion of "elites" is broadening, as is the number of non-Americans who study in the United States.
This was why he'd followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps in running a militia to challenge the elite's power and affluence while the rest of the people served the elites or went into the regular military, the only two reputable professions.
Donors tend to be in close contact with educated, urban elites whose links with poor people are tenuous.
Politics and government are increasingly in the hands of privileged elites, as if democracy has run out of steam.
Set by themselves media elites at you mention however.
She has carried out intensive fieldwork among the social and political elites of Rajasthan and has published on ritual and kingship.
For the American multi-national corporations and the elites control- ling them, these policy shifts were good news.
This previously secret transcript shows the party elites choosing against violent repression of the mass protests in Wenceslas Square.
I 've always argued that archeology needs to be more than elites satisfying the intellectual curiosity of other elites.
On the contrary, the democratic impulses of the anti-capitalist and anti-war movement have been contradicted by the role of often self-appointed elites.
This is part and parcel of an overall tendency for self-perpetuating elites to dominate fields.
More Lawless World by Sands, Philippe International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider 's view of the elites who govern our lives.
In 2002, a group of dissident generals backed by opposition media tycoons and the Venezuelan elites launched a coup against Chávez.
It allows elites to run our economy to suit themselves, without interference, and with a veneer of legitimacy.
The people credited the PMF with saving them from the elite's Civil War while the elites tried hard to stamp out the PMF's existence.
In the Italian Renaissance, only a thin veneer of society's elites participated in the creation or ownership of the frescos, music, statues, and paintings; most were only passive observers.