TOP BRASS

top brass: translation

ADC, CO, Establishment, OD, VIP, aide, aide-de-camp, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, brass, brass hat, brigadier, brigadier general, bureaucracy, cabinet, cadre, captain, celebrity, chicken colonel, chief of staff, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, council, dignitary, dignity, directorate, directory, elder, exec, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, executive officer, father, field marshal, field officer, figure, first lieutenant, five-star general, four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, governing board, governing body, great man, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, important person, infrastructure, interests, interlocking directorate, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, lion, lords of creation, magnate, major, major general, man of mark, management, marechal, marshal, ministry, mogul, nabob, name, notability, notable, officer, officialdom, one-star general, orderly officer, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, prelacy, risaldar, ruling circle, ruling class, ruling classes, sachem, senior officer, shavetail, sirdar, somebody, something, staff officer, steering committee, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, the Establishment, the Old Man, the administration, the authorities, the brass, the executive, the great, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, three-star general, top people, two-star general, tycoon, very important person, worthy