Superelite

/suːpəɹɪˈliːt/ · noun

Meaning

An elite that ranks above the regular elite..

Definitions by Sense

1. An elite that ranks above the regular elite.
2. Being above and beyond elite.

Example Sentences

I can summarize my own position very simply: That, if they are bonus payments for hazardous duty and to the degree that they are, they should be equalized rather than confined to a special group. To the degree which they are bonus payments for attracting better qualified personnel, I am very dubious about using money incentives to build up an elite or a superelite or a super-superelite.

This meant that high-school graduates were in effect an elite, and since only a minority of them went on to the universities, university graduates were a superelite.

This all-out goal is combined with an apparent readiness to launch nuclear aggression whenever its calculations “assure” the survival of the few thousand superelite of the United States.

There are also two superelite champagnes, which are produced in a very limited quantity.

For an example of this need: when members of the superelite Business Council held their fall meeting at Hot Springs, Virginia, they predicted that toward the end of 1967 there would be a sharp slowdown of the economy; indeed, a group of economists headed by Walter Hoadley, senior vice-president of the Bank of America, forecast virtually a halt in economic growth in the butt months of 1967.

Three had their own practices, and two had become public figures. One was salaried but had attained the superelite position of partnership in a Wall Street Firm.

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• superelites
• super-elite
• more superelite
• most superelite

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