Illustration: Outside a small television studio, several hopeful performers wait on corridor chairs with instrument cases. A casually dressed newcomer arrives beside an older acquaintance, who warmly clasps hands with the producer at the doorway.

コネ

kone

connections, pull

An informal shortening of コネクション. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

トムにはコネがある。
Tom has connections.
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彼かれは父親ちちおやのコネのおかげで職しょくを得えた。
He got the job by virtue of his father’s connections.
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今いまの職しょくを得えるのに彼女かのじょは父親ちちおやのコネを利用りようした。
In getting her present job, she made capital of her father’s connections.
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