restricted class

American  

noun

1. a class of yachts that, although differing somewhat in design and rigging, are deemed able to race together because of conformity to certain standards.

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Example Sentences

Just above the restricted class are so-called "borderline" accounts, in which margin is 55% to 60%.

From Time Magazine Archive

The county and hundred officials were taken from one restricted class, the rural gentry; the township and parish officials were chosen by their neighbors from their own number.

From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts

There is a yet more restricted class to whom it is open to become Lords by sheer merit.

From On Nothing and Kindred Subjects by Belloc, Hilaire

He belonged to that restricted class of Nature's favourites whose exterior and whole being ensure a kindly reception everywhere, and in all circumstances.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

It was the language of a restricted class, of a political party, of a literary set.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max