noun [U] (often disapproving)
1 a way of organizing a system, society, etc. so that only a few people (= an elite) have power or influence:
Many people believe that private education encourages elitism.
2 the feeling of being better than other people that being part of an elite encourages
elitist adjective:
an elitist model of society * Universities are becoming far less elitist. * She accused him of being elitist.
elitist noun
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for elitism is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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