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bigwig

[ UK /bˈɪɡwɪɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɪˌɡwɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the most important person in a group or undertaking

How To Use bigwig In A Sentence

  • There are thousands of film festivals around the world, many as welcoming to the casual visitor as they are to movie industry bigwigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
  • Then, every Republican Party bigwig, in an effort to explain away their own failings, or the failure of the policies they advocated, will say, "Oh, well, let's remember, it was a pretty weak field. The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011
  • Significantly, the violators include some political bigwigs, powerful businessman and town planners.
  • He is a bigwig and has many contacts, as I discovered when I tried to get a lawyer later to contest his dismissal.
  • Council bigwigs have hit back at suggestions a town centre road could be the ‘worst in Britain’ for parking.
  • Many corporate bigwigs and sports personalities were seen teeing off at the Karnataka Golf Association here.
  • The camera always pans round, showing the party 's bigwigs singing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Arvind, a college teacher catches Rajkumar, son of a political bigwig, in the examination hall while the latter is copying.
  • The bigwigs attempt to persuade him, using a variety of arguments, that he is making the mistake of his life.
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