brain-trust
verb (used with object)
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Definition for brain-trust (2 of 2)
noun
Origin of brain trust
Example sentences from the Web for brain-trust
I know also that Abbas and his brain-trust has condemned the intifada, the bombs, the violence.
Cultural definitions for brain-trust (1 of 2)
A group of experts who serve as advisers to a government or an organization: “Before being appointed to the cabinet, Brown had been a leading figure in a financial brain trust.”
Cultural definitions for brain-trust (2 of 2)
A group of intellectuals and planners who act as advisers, especially to a government. The phrase is particularly associated with the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Idioms and Phrases with brain-trust
A group of experts who serve as unofficial but vital advisers. For example, Each town manager seemed to have his or her own brain trust, which of course changed with every election. This term, closely associated with President Franklin Roosevelt's advisers on domestic and foreign policy in the early 1930s, was first recorded in 1910.