inside track

1. 1.

   a favorable position in a competition

   “the boss's son had the inside track for that job”

   Broadersuperiority
2. 2.

   the inner side of a curved racecourse

   Broaderpath

   Part ofracetrack

Questions about inside track

What does inside track mean?

inside track means "a favorable position in a competition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is inside track a common word?

inside track is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.