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Well-connected   /wɛl-kənˈɛktəd/   Listen
Well-connected

adjective
1.
Connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position.






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"Well-connected" Quotes from Famous Books



... but he is well-connected, and is one of the wealthiest and most eligible young men in England. His name is Antony Standish, and his income is reputed to be something like a hundred thousand pounds a year. His father was Sir Mark Standish, a great iron-master and ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage

... nation,' the Archdeacon was saying, in that resonant voice of which the well-connected among the Anglican clergy (and their wives) alone possess the secret. 'I may tell you, my dear lad, that this visit to Venice has been a dream of my life, cherished though long deferred. I had not your advantages when I was a young man. The Grand Tour was denied me; and a country curacy with an ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... the advantage of his evident distress, decided in a flash (1) that here, before her, stood the wreck of a well-connected man, cleanly in person, not ill to look upon; and (2) that she would a little longer withhold ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

... for $5,000,000; all these facts indicate concentration of forces in the direction of higher education. The national Catholic conscience is awakened into action. "One of the most pressing needs of the Church at the present time, is to have a well-connected body of university-trained Catholics." This statement of Father Plater, S.J., is true also for Canada and more particularly for Western Canada. And indeed, this pressing need of higher education ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly



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