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wireless network

A system by which a computer, cell phone, or other device can access the Internet without being plugged into a router. I can't connect to the Internet on my laptop—why isn't the wireless network working? What's the password for the wireless network?

See also: network, wireless

the old-boy network

the way in which men who have been to the same expensive school or university help each other to find good jobs He admitted the old boy network had once existed in the company but said that things had changed now.

See also: network