educated elite
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeducatedandelite
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educated
adjective
uk/ˈedʒ.u.keɪ.tɪd/us/ˈedʒ.ə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/
having learned a lot at school or university and having a good level ...
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elite
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/iˈliːt/us/iˈliːt/
the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in ...
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(Definition ofeducatedandelitefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This reform involveseducatedeliteand middle-class women.
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There are clearly some dissenting voices among theeducatedelite.
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Another group with significant landed property was the newly emergingeducatedelite.
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Newspapers and books are thus inevitably an imperfect reflection of ' public opinion ' even amongst theeducatedelite.
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We thought that aneducatedelitewas enough.
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The latter were essential to success because, having been favoured by the colonial regime, they dominated the ranks of theeducatedelite.
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While its comments on current affairs remained superficial, it can be regarded as a middle-rank paper, bridging the gap between theeducatedeliteand a broader public.
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Thus, with religion as with morals, what was appropriate for theeducatedelitewas one thing, what was appropriate for the general public was something else.
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English is spoken byeducatedelite.
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It was the language of theeducatedelite.
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In the first industrial revolution we had a smalleducatedeliteand a large working class to operate the machines.
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It is a collection of countries with aneducatedelitethat can match that of countries anywhere in the world.
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Together with the authors discussed, they made up theeducatedeliteof engineers and architects who + either in positions of command or as professionals + controlled the planning of the city.
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If the ordinance had little effect,97 it did show, for the first time, that the colonial administration and theeducatedeliteshared a common determination to fight young offenders.
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This source-base is a strength of the book, but also a limitation : these are all documents intended for official or at least public consumption, written by aneducatedelite.
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Although such an approach can produce aneducatedelite, it does not, on the whole, generate pervasive behavioural competence and essential management skills.
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It was certainly the way that we attempted to do it when we went to theeducatedelitein the 19th century.
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Dejvice are relatively luxurious residential quarter, catering to theeducatedelite.
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The key to his reform program was guidance by aneducatedelitetoward a new social order.
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This crisis particularly affected theeducatedelite, most of whom were employed in civil service or state-owned enterprises.
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Monasteries served as repositories of knowledge and education, often running schools and providing a smalleducatedelite, who were essential to create and read documents in a largely illiterate society.
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