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elite
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[ noun ] (sociology) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
Synonyms Used in print (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)Nevertheless , impulses still exist among the ruling elite to rationalize and thus to perpetuate the need for centralized and authoritarian practices . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Its function is to separate from the base ruled mass , among whom private ownership prevails , the governing warrior elite . In More 's Utopia communism is not a means of separating_out a warrior elite from the lumpish mass . in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes , in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes . in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes , in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes . Related terms upper_class cream nobility society intelligentsia chosen few technocrat |
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