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brain trust

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. kitchen cabinet, brain trustnoun

    an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government

Wiktionary

  1. brain trustnoun

    Originally, a group of experts who advise a government, often informally.

  2. brain trustnoun

    More recently, any group of experts assembled to give advice.

  3. Etymology: Originally a group of academics who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

ChatGPT

  1. brain trust

    A brain trust is a group of experts or advisers providing knowledge, ideas or advice in their specific fields or subjects, commonly to a business, organization, political leader or a governing body. These individuals are usually chosen based on their high levels of expertise and experience.

Wikidata

  1. Brain Trust

    Brain trust began as a term for a group of close advisers to a political candidate or incumbent, prized for their expertise in particular fields. The term is most associated with the group of advisers to Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential administration. More recently the use of the term has expanded to encompass any group of advisers to a decision maker, whether or not in politics.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brain trust in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brain trust in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of brain trust in a Sentence

  1. Rob Ford:

    If someone in Cameron's brain trust had looked properly at how to prepare for a referendum and thought about what outcomes were most palatable to the largest number of voters, the campaign might have played put very differently, some of the damage from a polarizing campaign over a reductive and divisive binary question might have been avoided.

  2. Russian General Staff:

    So, sooner or later, the Russian General Staff, which is the strategic planning authority, the brain trust of the Russian military, has concluded through their current assessment that a war is inevitable between Russia and the U.S..


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