urban elite

collocation in English

meanings of urbanand elite

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urban
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈɜː.bən/ us /ˈɝː.bən/
of or in a city ...
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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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Examples of urban elite

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A high proportion of them - although not all of them - came from the urbanelite.
Access to and income from cattle are still central to both the urbanelite and rural dwellers.
In particular attention has focused on the character of the urbanelite and its role in the process of change.
In nearly all other respects, however, the judges shared a similar outlook and easily ranked among the urbanelite.
Words take on different nuances for a member of the urbanelite as opposed to, say, a farmer.
Roberts uncovers no significant changes in the physical, affective or moral rearing of children in his urbanelite in the two centuries studied.
Both of these factors ensured a greater measure of agrarian production in urban household economies and within urban jurisdictions, and also ensured a more agrarian-based urbanelite.
Both works under discussion here draw similar conclusions about the changing position of the urbanelite during the early modern period, despite their different emphases (political and social).
The rapid expansion of manufacturing after 1850 brought about a growing recognition, among sections of the urbanelite, of the likely damaging effects of further prolonged con-ict.
We are left to wonder how urban opinion was marshalled behind the copper industry, or what role the coppermasters played in the formation of a local urbanelite.
For the urbanelite this was perhaps an understandable response as the alternative suggestion that their governance was at variance with a new working-class electorate was even more unpalatable.
These large, gilded bronze statues must have made a startling impact, and may have helped to achieve the evident aim of identifying the urbanelite with this highly charged location.
With stylish shops and cafes, it became something of a meeting place for the young urbanelite.
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The small number of priests and members of religious institutes in the 1930s ministered mainly to the urbanelite.
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In those circumstances, although we are willing to fund a programme of land reform, it must be a programme targeted at the rural poor and not an urbanelite.
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