ELITE


Meaning of ELITE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

elite/crack troops (= the best, most skilled or most experienced troops )

The general's headquarters is guarded by crack troops.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

administrative

Post-war organization theory develops the democratic elitist account to accord a much more substantive policy role to administrative elites .

The rise of the Carron de Saint-Thomas clan offers a generalized illustration of how the Savoyard administrative elite developed at this time.

Instrumentalists regard administrative elites as simply functionaries who make policy according to the rational interests of the capitalist class.

Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.

The decentralization imperative implicit in factoring problems runs into the co-ordination imperative felt keenly by the executive political and administrative elite .

Space programmes also highlight contrasts in administrative and managerial elites .

There is also a much closer interconnection than in Britain between political elites and administrative elites within the state.

black

Most of those who can are either white or among the new black elite .

His philosophy of pragmatic capitalism and backslapping politics were viciously attacked by members of the Northern black elite .

cultural

In fact, for both economic and cultural reasons, elite Western workers are often better left behind these days.

economic

The Western economic elite has always been a small class and continues so to this day.

The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city's political and economic elites .

The drug mafia have become a new economic elite , beyond government control.

In each election its percentage of the vote has risen despite vicious opposition from the economic elites and the mainstream media.

governing

The absence of alternation also has consequences for the governing elite .

For him, regulationism meant adherence to the values and ordered hierarchy of the governing elite as much as to sanitary reform.

intellectual

The opposition mostly represents the upper-middle class and intellectual elite .

In this area, change is very slow, and is confined almost entirely to the intellectual elite .

The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.

local

It goes either to local elites or for export to more affluent societies.

new

Imperial governments created a new elite of natives and invested them with the power of their language of administration and justice.

Bankers and the new elite were threatened by bankruptcy.

The drug mafia have become a new economic elite , beyond government control.

Most of those who can are either white or among the new black elite .

He wanted to cover himself with glory, and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite .

Your Internet wanderings will reveal that cyber savers are the new elite , benefiting from superior rates.

old

With the arrival of self-made tycoons such as Stagecoach's Brian Souter, the sway of the old elite may be diminishing.

political

In any case, Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites .

Well-informed, experienced political elites have made little or no progress solving any of these problems.

The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city's political and economic elites .

The decentralization imperative implicit in factoring problems runs into the co-ordination imperative felt keenly by the executive political and administrative elite .

The apparently untidy structure of the machinery of government, and its constant alteration, reflect the objectives of the political elites .

Such an approach may have become more widespread among the Soviet political elite since the death of Brezhnev.

This will propel her into the political elite and could make her the most likely leftwing candidate for president in 2006.

ruling

After his speech the night before in the Academy, Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite .

This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite .

One example can be found in the response of ruling groups and elites to the student movement of the 1960s.

Have they become a ruling elite or even a new ruling class?

He had travelled across the city from the suburbs to the apartments of the ruling elite .

small

In the Ormansag there is now a small wealthy elite , but everybody else is poor.

The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.

There is also a huge gulf between the small educated elite and ordinary Gypsies.

social

In short, the attitudes of both the social elite and the labor movement have served to hinder economic growth.

What was the exact nature of the social and political elite that dominated state and society at this time?

This seems a clear example of his allegiance to popular dissent against the Church and social elite who supported the Restoration.

Higher level administrators are the relatives and friends of business and social elites .

It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites .

Party conferences were theatrical productions frequented by a social elite of fashion designers, architects, financiers and intellectuals.

The poem stylistically asserts its participation in high literary culture, a culture by the 1670s unquestionably associated with a social elite .

The leaderships of political parties are both social elites and state elites.

traditional

After 10 years, the cocaine trade has joined, and to some extent displaced, the traditional elite class.

In the name of economic liberalism, the Thatcher governments made war on traditional institutions and traditional elites .

Neo-elitists such as Bachrach and Wright share with traditional elite theoreticians a concern to demonstrate the real persistence of elites in modern society.

urban

Infected rates are high among urban elites as well as among the poor and underprivileged.

Political power is inversely correlated with economic productivity. Urban elites are economically parasitic but politically dominant.

In the great majority of developing countries, such urban elites spearheaded the fight against the colonizing power.

■ NOUN

business

Hotel Okura Tokyo Where the business elite meet in Tokyo.

Significantly, this new prosperity is not confined to the business elite or even the emerging middle class.

By this point, the council had initiated the first of several large redevelopment projects proposed by the business elite .

■ VERB

join

However, unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite .

He joins that elite group of Town stalwarts at a time when his future is uncertain.

But, once established, the service class is extremely effective in ensuring that its offspring also joins this elite .

rule

If there were ever an illustration of an effete ruling elite , it is this.

But Arkan's most dangerous enemies were those in the ruling elite .

There were no heroes and heroines to persecute, no ruling elite and no mastering committee.

The country is still ruled by people who are heirs to a ruling Western elite .

Of course the ruling elites are still capable of using repressive forces.

In spite of the West's move to hit the ruling elite with more sanctions, few think change will come soon.

Yet information, particularly over the internal situation and the political attitudes of the ruling elite , is scarce.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

All the glamorous Washington elite were at the dinner that evening.

Only a small elite can afford to send their children to this school.

The Parachute Regiment are the elite of the British armed forces.

The President has been accused of developing policies in favor of a small elite .

The ruling elite have resisted all attempts at reform.

The sort of goods once reserved for the elite are now available to everyone.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For them an elite must prove itself in this ability to murder.

Hotel Okura Tokyo Where the business elite meet in Tokyo.

The agencies dealing with business and corporate elites tend to employ a more co-operative mode than those dealing with the poor.

The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.

II. adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Anyone who studied at the college joined an elite band of well-connected lawyers, doctors and businessmen.

In 1978 he joined the CRS, France's elite corps of riot police.

The competition is only open to an elite group of athletes.

The palace is guarded by elite troops loyal to the president.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Elite: Kewill-Omicron has updated the nominal ledger for its Elite package.

He wanted an efficient and elite engineering team.

I also have a cream Elite Strat as my main spare.

Much political theorising was therefore restricted to explicitly normative, though often very sophisticated, comparisons of different forms of elite rule.

Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations.

They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization.

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