Social class in the United Kingdom ageing traditional working class, a ‘precariat’ characterised by very low levels of capital, and a group of emergent service workers. The fracturing of the middle sectors of the social structure into distinguishable factions separated by generational, economic, cultural, and social characteristics was considered notable by the authors of the research. Members of the elite class are the top 6% of British society with very high economic capital (particularly savings), high social capital, and very 'highbrow' cultural capital. Occupations such as chief executive officers, IT and telecommunications directors, marketing and sales directors; functional managers and directors, solicitors, barristers and judges, financial
Portmanteau "nor"bu ("lotus jewel"), and the Buddhist practice of Dzogchen, or "dzog"pa "chen"po, the "Great Perfection." Tibetan is rich with portmanteaus. In linguistics, the term blend is used to refer to the general combination of words, and the term "portmanteau" is reserved for the narrow sense of combining two or more morphemes in one morph. E.g. in the Latin word "animalis" the ending "-is" is a portmanteau morph because it is used for two morphemes: the singularity and the genitive case. In English two separate morphs are used ("of an animal"). The term may also be extended to include (written) contractions.