WordNet
n. a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status [syn: elite]
Usage examples of "elite group".
Even the special, the characteristic and unique task of his position, the training of an elite group of perfected Glass Bead Game players, for all the joy it sometimes brought him, and despite the fact that this elite took great pride in their Magister, seems in the long run to have been more of a burden than a pleasure to him.
The colonel was also the leader of a group of devoted Nazis who formed an elite group of SS officers dedicated to defending the faith.
In his place was a man close to the President, one of a small elite group of Washington power brokers with the muscle to shape events or create havoc around the globe.
At the same time, the sharpshooters yielded their snipers' nests to agents armed with 500-pound pull crossbows - an elite group that soon would take to unofficially calling itself the Company of St George, after the medieval crossbow society that once protected the English sovereign.
It's symptomatic of how they see themselves: different, apart, a member of an elite group, above the law.
There was no solid proof of this, of courseonly anxieties that gave rise to the fear that an elite group of historians/insurgents, labelled Preservationists by the Intel section, might know far more than the Trust or even the barons themselves.
The brigadier, as a compromise with safety considerations, tended to be surrounded by some elite group of warriors, dedicated to protecting him during the course of the battle.
Thus, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse joins a small elite group of young men (four in all) whose looks Mrs.