"wasta" meaning in English

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        "3": "وَاسِطَة"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ar",
        "3": "و س ط"
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wastas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "wasta (plural wastas)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 June 15, Syed Rashid Husain, “'Wasta' at US Embassy”, in Arab News",
          "text": "The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta, one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood"
      ],
      "id": "en-wasta-en-noun-jhHET-3u",
      "links": [
        [
          "Intercession",
          "intercede"
        ],
        [
          "mediation",
          "mediation"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Arab society; often italicized; Arab society; often italicized",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Arab society, often italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "connections"
        },
        {
          "word": "nepotism"
        },
        {
          "word": "cronyism"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wasta"
}

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      },
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
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        "2": "ar",
        "3": "و س ط"
      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wastas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms derived from the Arabic root و س ط",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 June 15, Syed Rashid Husain, “'Wasta' at US Embassy”, in Arab News",
          "text": "The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta, one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Intercession",
          "intercede"
        ],
        [
          "mediation",
          "mediation"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Arab society; often italicized; Arab society; often italicized",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Arab society, often italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "connections"
    },
    {
      "word": "nepotism"
    },
    {
      "word": "cronyism"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wasta"
}