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top brass

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  • noun idiomatic, colloquial A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization.

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  • noun the most important persons in a governing body

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synonyms (138)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ADC
  2. CO
  3. Establishment
  4. OD
  5. VIP
  6. administration
  7. aide
  8. aide-de-camp
  9. baron
  10. big gun
  11. big man
  12. big name
  13. bigwig
  14. board
  15. board of directors
  16. board of regents
  17. board of trustees
  18. brass
  19. brass hat
  20. brigadier
  21. brigadier general
  22. bureaucracy
  23. cabinet
  24. cadre
  25. captain
  26. celebrity
  27. chicken colonel
  28. chief of staff
  29. colonel
  30. commandant
  31. commander
  32. commander in chief
  33. commanding officer
  34. commissioned officer
  35. company officer
  36. council
  37. dignitary
  38. dignity
  39. directorate
  40. directory
  41. elder
  42. establishment
  43. exec
  44. executive arm
  45. executive committee
  46. executive hierarchy
  47. executive officer
  48. father
  49. field marshal
  50. field officer
  51. figure
  52. first lieutenant
  53. five-star general
  54. four-star general
  55. general
  56. general officer
  57. generalissimo
  58. governance
  59. governing board
  60. governing body
  61. great man
  62. hierarchy
  63. higher echelons
  64. higher-ups
  65. important person
  66. infrastructure
  67. interests
  68. interlocking directorate
  69. jemadar
  70. junior officer
  71. lieutenant
  72. lieutenant colonel
  73. lieutenant general
  74. lion
  75. lords of creation
  76. magnate
  77. major
  78. major general
  79. man of mark
  80. management
  81. marechal
  82. marshal
  83. ministry
  84. mogul
  85. nabob
  86. name
  87. notability
  88. notable
  89. officer
  90. officialdom
  91. one-star general
  92. orderly officer
  93. organisation
  94. organization
  95. panjandrum
  96. person of renown
  97. personage
  98. personality
  99. pillar of society
  100. power
  101. power elite
  102. prelacy
  103. risaldar
  104. ruling circle
  105. ruling class
  106. ruling classes
  107. sachem
  108. senior officer
  109. shavetail
  110. sirdar
  111. somebody
  112. something
  113. staff officer
  114. steering committee
  115. subahdar
  116. subaltern
  117. sublieutenant
  118. the Establishment
  119. the Old Man
  120. the administration
  121. the authorities
  122. the brass
  123. the executive
  124. the great
  125. the ingroup
  126. the interests
  127. the people upstairs
  128. the power elite
  129. the power structure
  130. the top
  131. them
  132. they
  133. three-star general
  134. top people
  135. two-star general
  136. tycoon
  137. very important person
  138. worthy

hypernyms (7)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. administration
  2. brass
  3. establishment
  4. governance
  5. governing body
  6. organisation
  7. organization

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