单词 | old-boy network |
释义 | old-boy network also old boy network Word forms: plural old-boy networks countable noun When people talk about the old-boy network, they are referring to a situation in which people who went to the same public school or university use their positions of influence to help each other. [British, disapproval] The majority obtained their positions through the old boy network. old boy network in British Englishnoun British informal the appointment to power of former pupils of the same small group of public schools or universities |
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