overclassn.
/ˈəʊvəklɑːs/, /ˈəʊvəklas/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌklæs/ A privileged, wealthy, or powerful section of society.
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1965 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 37 326/2 The opposition and the bitterness between the old Swedish overclass with its seventeenth-century traditions and the industrial worker class.
1979 Social Forces 58 424 There are strategic settings where the usual urban underclass—blacks and Hispanics—has power over the white overclass.
1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Sept. 1000/3 The conglomerates function as a media overclass. Below them..is a vast, chaotic, underclass.
2000 D. D'Souza Virtue of Prosperity i. 21 In general you are a member of the overclass if you have an annual income in excess of $150,000 and a net worth of at least $1 million.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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