Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Date "well-connected" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Well-connected adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available Usenet newsgroups. `Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active Usenet users). Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Well-connectedSynonym: socially connected (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Well-connected |
| English words defined with "well-connected": socially connected. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A well-connected agent or a distributor with strategically positioned sales offices in the major commercial centers will greatly enhance chances of capturing a strong share of the market. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | In August the magazine Business and Finance Review exposed a well-connected, Ningxia-based company that illegally had manipulated its stock price and cheated its investors. (references) |
Economic History | Qatar | U.S. firms are advised that a well-connected local agent can be an asset, even during the bidding process. (references) |
Australia | Australian businesses are also well-connected to the Internet, at rates comparable to Scandinavian countries. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Persons occasionally are detained arbitrarily because of disputes with powerful or well-connected persons. (references) |
Pakistan | Many accused, especially well-connected persons who are made aware of impending warrants against them, are able to obtain prearrest bail, and thus are spared arrest and incarceration. (references) | |
Travel | Laos | SINCE THE EMPHASIS PLACED ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IS SO HIGH, HAVING A RELIABLE AND WELL-CONNECTED LOCAL AGENT OR REPRESENTATIVE IS OFTEN CRUCIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF A FOREIGN VENTURE. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The American people look at their capital and they see a city where the well-connected and the well-protected can work the system, but the interests of ordinary citizens are often left out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Well-connected" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-connected" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "well-connected"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Korean | 잘 연결하는. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ell-connectedway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-l-l-n-n-o-t-w" | |
-3 letters: nonelected. | |
-4 letters: collected, connected, decollete. | |
-5 letters: colleted, nonelect, tendence, towelled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 6C 2D 63 6F 6E 6E 65 63 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e l l - c o n n e c t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 0063 006F 006E 006E 0065 0063 0074 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5771787815698180807169867170 |
| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "well-connected" |
