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clique

noun/kliːk/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A small, exclusive group within a workplace that keeps others at a distance.

New joiners struggled to break into the engineering clique that controlled who got the interesting projects.

Similar: coterie, in-group

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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