OLD BOY NETWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old boy network mean? 

• OLD BOY NETWORK (noun)
  The noun OLD BOY NETWORK has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: OLD BOY NETWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD BOY NETWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

professional women have developed an old boy network of their own

Hypernyms ("old boy network" is a kind of...):

network; web (an interconnected system of things or people)