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brain trust
1noun
- a group of experts from various fields who serve as unofficial consultants on matters of policy and strategy.
brain-trust
2[ breyn-truhst ]
verb (used with object)
- to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for:
They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
brain trust
1- 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 .
brain trust
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.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of brain trust1
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Discover More
Example Sentences
I know also that Abbas and his brain-trust has condemned the intifada, the bombs, the violence.
The Obama brain trust decided not to risk a presidential appearance in Wisconsin.
Alegria decided he would not only found Mamiverse but locate its technical brain trust in Tucson.
But his brain trust waves off the usual queries about tactics and controversies.
Obama and Patrick are old allies; they share similar biographies and much of the same brain trust.
Some of the measures he and his so-called brain trust took were immediately hailed by his enemies as socialistic.
The brain trust, of course, also works on luring away the competitor's customers to their product.
Hell, Lance, this is the sort of stuff the brain trust pays us bonuses for.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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