coterie
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A small, exclusive group of people with shared interests or tastes.
Real decisions were taken not in cabinet but by a coterie of advisers who dined with the leader each Sunday.
Business noun
A small, exclusive group with shared interests who keep others at a distance.
Strategy was decided by a coterie of insiders, leaving the wider leadership team to rubber-stamp the outcome.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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