| Main Entry: | brain trust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | board of advisers |
Synonyms: |
advisors, advisory board, authorities, cabinet, council, experts, high-level advisers, inner circle |
| Main Entry: | cabinet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | executives serving a leader |
Synonyms: |
administration, administrators, advisers, assembly, assistants, authority, brain trust, bureau, bureaucracy, committee, council, counselors, department heads, governing body, government, kitchen cabinet, ministry, official family |
| Main Entry: | council |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people assembled for purpose |
Synonyms: |
assembly, board, body, brain trust, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, confab, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, directorate, gang, gathering, governing body, groupthink, huddle, kitchen cabinet, meet, ministry, mob, official family, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow, ring, senate, synod |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
| Main Entry: | inner circle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corps of advisers |
Synonyms: |
brain trust, brains trust, cadre, charmed circle, cohort, in-crowd, in-group, infrastructure, inside, kitchen cabinet, we-group |
| Main Entry: | think tank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | research organization |
Synonyms: |
brain trust, ivory tower, workshop |
| Concept: | Council. |
| Category: | 2. Complex voluntary action |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff., senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board., audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber., cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general., assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire [N.Am.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.]., senator; member, member of parliament, M.P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman.
-adjectives
senatorial, curule; congressional, parliamentary.
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