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Influential connections
Answer for the clue "Influential connections ", 15 letters:
old boy network
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An old boy network , or society (also old boys' club ), can refer to social and business connections among former pupils of male-only private schools. The term originated from much of the British elite having attended certain public schools as boys, thus ...
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n. an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics); "professional women have developed an old boy network of their ...
Usage examples of old boy network.
Biology was an incredible and archaic patriarchy with many of the aspects of an old boy network: secret signs, passwords, rituals of indoctrination.
Every agent has his own 'old boy network' and like every other 'old boy network' it cuts across frontiers, jobs and every other loyalty - it's a sort of spy's insurance policy.
Perhaps the French Secret Service doesn't have an old boy network with your section.
In the course of my research I upset a few younger members of the Oxbridge set by suggesting that the City of London corruption cases of the eighties could be traced to the exclusion practices of the old boy network, and I went as far as to name a few of the culprits.