| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human or group who manages effort of an organization |
Synonyms: |
admiral, advisers, board, bureau, cabinet, chair, chairperson, chargé d'affaires, command, commander, committee, consulate, department, directors, embassy, executive, executives, feds, front office, general, governing body, headquarters, legislature, management, ministry, officers, officials, powers, presidency, president, presidium, stewards, superintendents, supervisors, top brass, upstairs |
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
Synonyms: |
CEO, arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese, big shot, big wig, boss, brains, brass, buff*, city hall, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment*, exec, executive, expert, feds, front office, governor, guru, ivory dome, judge, kingfish, kingpin, law*, power elite, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, top brass, top dog, top hand, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of advisers |
Synonyms: |
advisers, advisory group, brass, cabinet, committee, conclave, council, directorate, directors, execs, executive suite, executives, front office, jury, panel, trustees, upstairs |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
Antonyms: |
individual, one |
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bottom of a room; level of a multistory building |
Synonyms: |
basement, boards, canvas, carpet, cellar, deck, downstairs, flat, flooring, ground, landing, lowest point, mat, mezzanine, nadir, rug, stage, story, tier, upstairs |
Antonyms: |
ceiling |
| Main Entry: | gallery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | balcony |
Synonyms: |
arcade, loggia, mezzanine, patio, porch, upstairs, veranda |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top part of an animate body |
Synonyms: |
attic, belfry, brain, capitulum, coconut, cranium, crown, dome, gray matter, noggin, noodle, pate, scalp, skull, think tank, thinker*, top story, upper story, upstairs |
Antonyms: |
foot |
| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
Synonyms: |
Arcadia, Canaan, Elysium, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, afterworld, atmosphere, azure*, beyond, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, empyrean, enchantment, eternal home, eternal rest, eternity, fairyland, felicity, firmament, glory, great unknown, happiness, happy hunting ground, harmony, heights, hereafter, immortality, kingdom, kingdom come, life everlasting, life to come, next world, nirvana, paradise, pearly gates, promised land, rapture, sky*, the blue, transport, upstairs, wonderland |
Antonyms: |
hell |
| Main Entry: | management |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons running an organization |
Synonyms: |
administration, authority, board, bosses, brass, directorate, directors, employers, execs, executive, executive suite, executives, front office, head, mainframe, management, micro management, person upstairs, top brass, upstairs |
Antonyms: |
employees |
| Main Entry: | over |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | above |
Synonyms: |
aloft, beyond, covering, farther up, higher than, in heaven, in the sky, off, on high, on top of, overhead, overtop, straight up, traversely, upstairs |
Antonyms: |
under |
| Main Entry: | front office |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | executive office |
Synonyms: |
anteriority, executive hierarchy, top brass, upstairs |