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TOP BRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does top brass mean?
• TOP BRASS (noun)
The noun TOP BRASS has 1 sense:
1. the most important persons in a governing body
Familiarity information: TOP BRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The most important persons in a governing body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("top brass" is a kind of...):
administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)
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