brain trust

1. 1.

   an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government

   Synonymskitchen cabinet

   Broaderclique

Questions about brain trust

What does brain trust mean?

brain trust means "an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government".

What is another word for brain trust?

Close synonyms include kitchen cabinet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brain trust a common word?

brain trust is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.