string
/strɪŋ/ noun [C]Definition
pull strings › (also US pull wires) to use your power or influence to get what you want: She became a journalist for one of the UK's top newspapers after her father pulled strings.
pull the strings › the person who pulls the strings in a particular organization, situation, etc. makes the important decisions about it and controls it: Shareholders are concerned because they no longer really know who is pulling the strings at the bank.
(Definition of string noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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