people in power

1. 1.

   the class of people exerting power or authority

   Synonymsruling class

   Broaderupper class

Questions about people in power

What does people in power mean?

people in power means "the class of people exerting power or authority".

What is another word for people in power?

Close synonyms include ruling class. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is people in power a common word?

people in power is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.