economic elite
Moneyed ruling class
The economic elite are those who hold disproportionate wealth and financial power within a society.
The term implies not just affluence but influence—the ability to shape markets, policies, and institutions.
Unlike aristocracy, which suggests inherited title, economic elite emphasizes money as the basis of status: Tax cuts that benefit the economic elite, The economic elite have outsized political influence.
The phrase often carries critical undertones, suggesting a class whose interests diverge from ordinary people's.
- wealthyHaving abundant financial resources
- oligarchMember of small ruling class
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- donor classAffluent contributors as group
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
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economic elitethe poor
underclass · working class · poor · lower class · paupers
economic eliteworking class
Manual laborers collectively
proletariat · labor · wage earners · working poor · blue-collar workers
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