davos man
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Davos Man.
Example Sentences
- "The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite. Labeled ‘Davos Men’, ‘gold-collar workers’ or . . . ‘cosmocrats’, this emerging class is empowered by new notions of global connectedness. It includes academics, international civil servants and executives in global companies, as well as successful high-technology entrepreneurs."
- "So Davos man has a troublesome pre-history of combining brilliance and stupidity, of being blinded by national and ideological prejudice to his own long-term interest and destroying with one hand what he has built with the other."
- "Although Lexiteers have little patience for the national nihilism of “Davos Man,” the globalist elite, we are no xenophobes. […] It has been a colossal error by Davos Man left-wingers to think of nation-states as embarrassing anachronisms hostile to democracy."
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Frequently Paired Words
Davos Woman