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brass hat

  1. a military officer of high rank: so called from the gold braid often on the cap
  2. any high official, executive, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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