What is "well-connected"

Usage examples of "well-connected".

Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.

He thought it unnecessary to enlarge on the many arguments his mother had presented to him on the advantages of such a connection: that Lady Cytherea was of good family, well-connected, fashionable and had by common report an excellent dowry, and that now he was an earl, he owed it to the family to make a suitable match.

Obviously, Descroix figures this is a sufficiently unimportant slot that she can use it to find makework for a well-connected total incompetent.

Vivacious, politically keen, his age, well-connected, the former Mary Boykin reminded him of Anna.

Trying to remember everything she's ever heard or Googled about Bigend's origins, the rise of Blue Ant: the industrialist father in Brussels, summers in the family's villa at Cannes, the archaic but well-connected British boarding school, Harvard, the foray into independent production in Hollywood, some sort of brief self-finding hiatus in Brazil, the emergence of Blue Ant, first in Europe, then in the UK and New York.

Deirdre was an obedient daughter and the Reverend Rushton was very anxious for her to marry into such a well-connected family.

Now, there was nothing so charming to her imagination as the unpretending comfort of a well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton, but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably had none.