Step from the inner circle into the outercircle of power and the story of privilege continues.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We have many potential allies in the EU's outercircle.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
As a member of the outercircle of the Xhosa royal household, he says that he learnt a lot about the techniques of leadership.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Definition of 'circle'
circle
(sɜːʳkəl)Explore 'circle' in the dictionary
countable noun
You can refer to a group of people as a circle when they meet each other regularly because they are friends or because they belong to the same profession or share the same interests.