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school tie

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school tie [countable]
1SESDCC a special tie with a particular colour or pattern that children wear at some schools in Britain
2

the old school tie

British English informal the unofficial system by which people who went to the same school, especially an expensive one, help each other to gain important positions later in their lives
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