in the loop

English

Prepositional phrase

in the loop

1. Informed; up to date; having current knowledge; part of the discussion.

   Synonym: in the know

   Antonyms: in the dark, out of the loop

   Please be sure to keep your manager and the customer contacts in the loop if you must make changes.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 128:

     While I knew enough of the key players to be kept in the loop I was hardly the guy they went to to discuss tarsus length on Golden Plovers or the morphological differences in cranial structure of the Wandering Albatross complex.

Related terms

• loop in

Translations

informed

Dutch: op de hoogte French: au courant (fr) German: auf dem Laufenden Hebrew: בתמונה f (batemunah) Polish: zaznajomiony, w grupie zainteresowanych, na bieżąco (pl) Russian: в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse), в ку́рсе де́ла (v kúrse déla) Spanish: al tanto, informado (es), al corriente (es), en todas

Anagrams

• lithopone, phonolite