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connections

/kəˈnɛkʃənz/ noun B1
  1. The people financially involved with a racehorse or racing greyhound.
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I have dined many times with him and the Count of Morcerf, so you see I have some high connections and were I to cultivate them a little, we might meet in the same drawing-rooms.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 832 · C1
But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 38 · B2
He really believed that, were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 57 · B2
I knew nothing at all of Lady Catherine’s connections.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 94 · B2

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