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

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

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

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