English-Dutch translations for clique

• kliek
  Het is niet zo dat wij een rare kliek zijn die de bedrijven kapot probeert te maken. It is not as if we were some devious clique involved in destroying businesses.
  Helaas veroorzaakte een kleine kliek van provocateurs vernielingen en gewelddadigheden. Unfortunately, a small clique of agents provocateurs also caused violence and disturbances.
  Hij heeft een verschrikkelijke lijst van schendingen van de mensenrechten door Saddam Hussein en zijn kliek gedurende de laatste zes jaar opgesteld. During the last six years he has catalogued a terrifying list of human rights violations by Saddam Hussein and his clique.
• pal
• troep

Definition of clique

• A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal
• A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph
• A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner
• To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot

Examples

• This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
• The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.

Related words

• inclinated
• declination
• climb
• motorcyclist
• eclipse
• client
• climate
• decline
• climax
• clinch