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brain trust
n.
1. A group of experts who serve, usually unofficially, as advisers and policy planners, especially in a government.
2. often Brain Trust Such a group associated with the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the development of the New Deal.
3. brains trust Chiefly British A group of experts gathered to discuss issues informally in public, especially on radio or television.
brain truster n.
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Noun1.brain trust - an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government
kitchen cabinet
clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose


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