old boy network

See also: old-boy network

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old boy network (plural old boy networks)

  1. (idiomatic) A presumed unacknowledged system of association between childhood friends (especially those at school or university together), used for mutual assistance or favouritism.
    • 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. 7:
      His hiring and promotion of senior officers rested not on merit but on an old-boy network of connections from Wall Street and the Social Register.
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