I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elite/crack troops (= the best, most skilled or most experienced troops )
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The general's headquarters is guarded by crack troops.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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Post-war organization theory develops the democratic elitist account to accord a much more substantive policy role to administrative elites .
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The rise of the Carron de Saint-Thomas clan offers a generalized illustration of how the Savoyard administrative elite developed at this time.
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Instrumentalists regard administrative elites as simply functionaries who make policy according to the rational interests of the capitalist class.
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Elected governments and administrative elites are passive functionaries who simply facilitate the bargains struck by the functional elites.
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The decentralization imperative implicit in factoring problems runs into the co-ordination imperative felt keenly by the executive political and administrative elite .
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Space programmes also highlight contrasts in administrative and managerial elites .
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There is also a much closer interconnection than in Britain between political elites and administrative elites within the state.
black
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Most of those who can are either white or among the new black elite .
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His philosophy of pragmatic capitalism and backslapping politics were viciously attacked by members of the Northern black elite .
cultural
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In fact, for both economic and cultural reasons, elite Western workers are often better left behind these days.
economic
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The Western economic elite has always been a small class and continues so to this day.
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The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city's political and economic elites .
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The drug mafia have become a new economic elite , beyond government control.
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In each election its percentage of the vote has risen despite vicious opposition from the economic elites and the mainstream media.
governing
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The absence of alternation also has consequences for the governing elite .
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For him, regulationism meant adherence to the values and ordered hierarchy of the governing elite as much as to sanitary reform.
intellectual
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The opposition mostly represents the upper-middle class and intellectual elite .
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In this area, change is very slow, and is confined almost entirely to the intellectual elite .
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The source of objective legal rules thus appears to be the fully developed rationality of the intellectual elites of different nations.
local
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It goes either to local elites or for export to more affluent societies.
new
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Imperial governments created a new elite of natives and invested them with the power of their language of administration and justice.
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Bankers and the new elite were threatened by bankruptcy.
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The drug mafia have become a new economic elite , beyond government control.
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Most of those who can are either white or among the new black elite .
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He wanted to cover himself with glory, and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite .
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Your Internet wanderings will reveal that cyber savers are the new elite , benefiting from superior rates.
old
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With the arrival of self-made tycoons such as Stagecoach's Brian Souter, the sway of the old elite may be diminishing.
political
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In any case, Weber is not very much concerned about the absence of popular control over the political elites .
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Well-informed, experienced political elites have made little or no progress solving any of these problems.
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The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city's political and economic elites .
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The decentralization imperative implicit in factoring problems runs into the co-ordination imperative felt keenly by the executive political and administrative elite .
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The apparently untidy structure of the machinery of government, and its constant alteration, reflect the objectives of the political elites .
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Such an approach may have become more widespread among the Soviet political elite since the death of Brezhnev.
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This will propel her into the political elite and could make her the most likely leftwing candidate for president in 2006.
ruling
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After his speech the night before in the Academy, Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite .
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This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite .
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One example can be found in the response of ruling groups and elites to the student movement of the 1960s.
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Have they become a ruling elite or even a new ruling class?
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He had travelled across the city from the suburbs to the apartments of the ruling elite .
small
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In the Ormansag there is now a small wealthy elite , but everybody else is poor.
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The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
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There is also a huge gulf between the small educated elite and ordinary Gypsies.
social
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In short, the attitudes of both the social elite and the labor movement have served to hinder economic growth.
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What was the exact nature of the social and political elite that dominated state and society at this time?
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This seems a clear example of his allegiance to popular dissent against the Church and social elite who supported the Restoration.
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Higher level administrators are the relatives and friends of business and social elites .
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It is not a separate corporate body distinct from the dominant social elites .
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Party conferences were theatrical productions frequented by a social elite of fashion designers, architects, financiers and intellectuals.
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The poem stylistically asserts its participation in high literary culture, a culture by the 1670s unquestionably associated with a social elite .
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The leaderships of political parties are both social elites and state elites.
traditional
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After 10 years, the cocaine trade has joined, and to some extent displaced, the traditional elite class.
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In the name of economic liberalism, the Thatcher governments made war on traditional institutions and traditional elites .
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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
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Infected rates are high among urban elites as well as among the poor and underprivileged.
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Political power is inversely correlated with economic productivity. Urban elites are economically parasitic but politically dominant.
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In the great majority of developing countries, such urban elites spearheaded the fight against the colonizing power.
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business
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Hotel Okura Tokyo Where the business elite meet in Tokyo.
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Significantly, this new prosperity is not confined to the business elite or even the emerging middle class.
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By this point, the council had initiated the first of several large redevelopment projects proposed by the business elite .
■ VERB
join
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However, unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite .
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He joins that elite group of Town stalwarts at a time when his future is uncertain.
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But, once established, the service class is extremely effective in ensuring that its offspring also joins this elite .
rule
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If there were ever an illustration of an effete ruling elite , it is this.
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But Arkan's most dangerous enemies were those in the ruling elite .
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There were no heroes and heroines to persecute, no ruling elite and no mastering committee.
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The country is still ruled by people who are heirs to a ruling Western elite .
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Of course the ruling elites are still capable of using repressive forces.
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In spite of the West's move to hit the ruling elite with more sanctions, few think change will come soon.
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Yet information, particularly over the internal situation and the political attitudes of the ruling elite , is scarce.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the glamorous Washington elite were at the dinner that evening.
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Only a small elite can afford to send their children to this school.
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The Parachute Regiment are the elite of the British armed forces.
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The President has been accused of developing policies in favor of a small elite .
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The ruling elite have resisted all attempts at reform.
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The sort of goods once reserved for the elite are now available to everyone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For them an elite must prove itself in this ability to murder.
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Hotel Okura Tokyo Where the business elite meet in Tokyo.
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The agencies dealing with business and corporate elites tend to employ a more co-operative mode than those dealing with the poor.
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The group approach explicitly rejects the notion that a small elite dominates the resource allocation process.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone who studied at the college joined an elite band of well-connected lawyers, doctors and businessmen.
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In 1978 he joined the CRS, France's elite corps of riot police.
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The competition is only open to an elite group of athletes.
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The palace is guarded by elite troops loyal to the president.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Elite: Kewill-Omicron has updated the nominal ledger for its Elite package.
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He wanted an efficient and elite engineering team.
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I also have a cream Elite Strat as my main spare.
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Much political theorising was therefore restricted to explicitly normative, though often very sophisticated, comparisons of different forms of elite rule.
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Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations.
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They prove themselves by becoming elite performers who climb rapidly through the organization.