Definition of "elite group" [elite group]

• A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Others graduated to more specialized terrorist training, and an elite group of recruits were inducted into al-Qaeda itself by swearing a personal religious oath of allegiance known as bayat to bin Laden."
• "Though they claimed to speak in the name of al-Hizb al-Watani, the National Party, their manifesto was in French, not Arabic; one elite group spoke to another."
• "The Manhattan North Homicide Squad is regarded as an elite group within the NYPD, operating out of an office at 120 East 119th Street."