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leisured class

NOUN
jet set
Synonyms
STRONGEST
high society upper class upper crust
WEAK
beau monde beautiful people café society country-club set cream of society crème de la crème elite fashionable society gentlefolk glitterati haut monde high life in-crowd moneyed class polite society privileged class salon smart set the privileged the well-to-do wealthy people

Example Sentences

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A great city also must have within its boundaries a large leisured class to pay for the culture and pleasure that are the outward signs of its preeminence.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We're in the business of totally converting the proletariat to the leisured class," Cornfeld boasted.

From Time Magazine Archive

The existence of a leisured class affords possibilities for the free development of originality, and a supply of disinterested men and women for the service of the State.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)

I think I shall become one of the intelligent leisured class.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

The existence of a very numerous leisured class is partly responsible, no doubt.

From England by Fox, Frank, Sir