brahmin

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I assume you mean in the Boston finance/brahmin/etc.

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a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman"

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noun

a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman"

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a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests"

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the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brahmin.

noun

a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston brahman"

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a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests"

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the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category

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any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding

Example sentences

I assume you mean in the Boston finance/brahmin/etc.

The submitted article mentioned an ad describing one prospect as a "brahmin boy." How pervasive is caste as a selection criterion for arranged marriages?

But the presence of brahmins would imply that some people are actually getting in because of merit because the brahmins don't have any reservation whatsoever anywhere.

The most honest answer is that we've got a ton of Linux servers with well understood and managed configurations, and then these brahmin storage servers that fall outside of that discipline because they have very different update cycles and toolchains.