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in the loop

in the loop prepositional phrase: informed; up to date; having current knowledge; part of the discussion.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Informed; up to date; having current knowledge; part of the discussion.
    • Please be sure to keep your manager and the customer contacts in the loop if you must make changes.
    • While I knew enough of the key players to be kept in the loop I was hardly the guy they went to to discuss tarsus length on Golden Plovers or the morphological differences in cranial structure of the Wandering Albatross complex.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 128
    Synonyms:
    in the know

Synonyms of in the loop

Antonyms

Questions about in the loop

What does in the loop mean?
In the loop means informed; up to date; having current knowledge; part of the discussion.
What part of speech is in the loop?
In the loop is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the loop in the dictionary

  1. in the limelight
  2. in the limit
  3. in the line of duty
  4. in the long run
  5. in the long term
  6. in the loop
  7. in the lump
  8. in the main
  9. in the making
  10. in the mean time
  11. in the meantime

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