person admitted or hired through connections
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- 1 person admitted or hired through connections、beneficiary of patronage
This refers to someone who gets a place or favorable treatment because another person puts in a word for them.
person admitted or hired through connections、beneficiary of patronage
Someone who benefits from a well-connected person's intervention, often to get into a school or secure a job.
Learning notes
Explanation
เด็ก means “child” or “young person,” and ฝาก means “to entrust.” Together, they evoke someone asking a school or organization to take a person under its wing. The term can describe adult employees as well as students. It often suggests favoritism and can sound critical or dismissive. It does not by itself establish that the person is unqualified or that any rules were broken. Use คน as the classifier when counting people described this way.
Usage
Common contexts include discussions of school admissions, hiring, workplace gossip, and whether selection processes are fair. It identifies people believed to have benefited from someone else's influence.
Caution
Calling someone เด็กฝาก can imply that they did not earn their position on merit. For an ordinary referral, มีคนแนะนำมา (“someone referred them”) is more neutral. For a child temporarily left in someone's care, use a more explicit phrase such as เด็กที่รับฝากไว้ to avoid the implication of patronage.
Differences from similar words
1 person admitted or hired through connections synonyms
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เด็กเส้น describes someone who benefits from influential connections. เด็กฝาก emphasizes another person intervening on their behalf with the receiving school or organization. The two terms often overlap.