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The Firm

name

Etymology

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is said to have popularised the expression.

Definitions

  1. The British royal family.

    • Markle’s American friends spoke eagerly about how she will be “an agent of change” for the royals, perhaps because they were too young, or too far away, to recall how things worked out for the last woman who tried to change The Firm.
    • Given the traditionalism that is baked into the royal family, or The Firm as she called it, the Queen eschewed online communications for official messages.
    • Now Andrew has been fired from the Firm, a nation wonders: who’ll be next? [title]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA