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Meaning of old-boyism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“And they serve it up with a powerful seasoning of old-boyism and arbitrary clique preference as between white males.”
“A recent president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, an organization regarded almost universally as a bastion of 'old-boyism,' was the female chief of police of Gaithersburg, Maryland.”
“The latter are characteristically few in number, and they reciprocate government old-boyism and good-old-boyism with heart-warmineg liberal donations to conservative causes — electoral and otherwise.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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