ELITE

[noun] [C + singular or plural verb], [adjective] [esp. disapproving] - the richest, most powerful, best educated or most highly trained group in a societyThe elite has/have been badly frightened by the revolution.He said that any changes to the tax system should be in order to benefit the workers, not the wealthy and influential elite. [C + singular or plural verb]Elite troops were airlifted to the trouble zone.