corporate elite
Boardroom power class
The corporate elite are the highest-ranking executives and board members who control major corporations and wield significant economic and political influence.
The term carries critical connotations, suggesting a powerful class whose interests diverge from ordinary workers: The corporate elite lobbied against the minimum wage increase.
Often used interchangeably with terms like business elite or ruling class.
- billionairePerson worth ten figures
- board memberGoverning body participant
- golden parachuteLucrative exit agreement
- lobbyistPaid legislative influencer
- revolving doorCircular spinning entrance
CEO · chairman · technocrat · capitalist · monopolist · neoliberal · shareholder · investor · private equity · hedge fund manager · power broker · CFO · plutocrat · old money · managing director · stockholder · entrepreneur · policymaker
- elite poweroligarchy, plutocracy, oligarch, plutocrat, oligarchs
corporate eliteworking class
Manual laborers collectively
working poor · proletariat · underclass · common people · the masses
corporate eliterank and file
Ordinary members collectively
entry-level workers · grunts · laborers · factory workers · service workers
corporate elitedisenfranchised
Deprived of voting rights
grassroots · ordinary citizens · Main Street · labor unions · community organizers
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