brain trustn.

Brit.

/ˈbreɪn trʌst/, U.S.

/ˈbreɪn ˌtrəst/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brain n., trust n.

Etymology: < brain n. + trust n. (compare trust n. 8). Compare later brains trust n.

Chiefly U.S. (originally slang).

A group of expert advisers or planners; the body in charge. Also attributive.Popularized in 1933 as the name for a group of experts appointed to advise the American President F. D. Roosevelt on political and economic matters.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > group of expert advisers

brain trust1890

brains trust1933

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority > group of

brain trust1890

brains trust1933

think factory1958

think-tank1958

1890 New Ideal Jan. 30 They have paid a fearful penalty for the mistake they have made in doing their thinking by proxy. The worst Trust that can threaten society is a brain Trust.

1903 Sat. Evening Post 21 Mar. 1 (heading) The brain trust. The oligarchy that rules the country.

1910 in Amer. Speech (1957) 32 57 Brain trust [in sense ‘college faculty’].

1913 Sat. Evening Post 3 Aug. 7 Of course, you'd be way back, cookin' up fancy dishes for the Brain Trust, while I'd be up front can-openin' for a bunch of roughnecks.

1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France 88 Through the Chief of Staff and through the Commander-in-Chief, this ‘brain trust’, as the line called it, had its policies executed when they were approved.

1933 Time 3 Apr. 12/1 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime Columbia University professor and Roosevelt ‘brain trust’ member.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Aug. 8/6 The ‘brain trust’ of the gang chooses a city for the ‘operation’ located within a hundred miles of a State boundary line.

1937 C. Odets Golden Boy i. iii. 45 The people who'll pay to watch a ‘brain trust’ you could fit in a telephone booth!

1968 A. Hailey Airport i. viii. 83 There were other sessions, some of them ‘brain trust’ affairs involving Kennedy aides.

1980 S. Fuller Big Red 288 The brain-trust boys in London..had accumulated a mountain of OSS information.

2002 New Yorker 11 Feb. 27/1 People who had previously been working on stuff only the Pentagon could use were suddenly free to invent and develop stuff civilians might want. The brain trust turned its attention from guns to butter.

Derivatives

ˈbrain truster n. a member of a brain trust.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority > group of > member of

brain truster1933

think-tanker1966

1933 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/4 Arrayed against each other in this conflict are: Brain Trusters: Professor R. G. Tugwell, young assistant secretary of agriculture;..Professor Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, chief of the professorial ‘kitchen cabinet’ and Roosevelt's general utility man.

1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Apr. 2 Foreign Ministers, advisers, and anonymous brain trusters.

1959 R. G. Fuller Danger! Marines at Work! 64 ‘That's the Board of Directors’, Maxwellington said sourly. ‘The battalion brain-trusters’.

1992 Newsweek (Special Election Issue) Nov.–Dec. 61/1 Bush had invited a dozen of his outside brain trusters to the White House for lunch, bonhomie and some postmortem political shoptalk.

2006 K. Mattson in N. Lichtenstein Amer. Capitalism ii. iv. 93 Perhaps the best exemplar of this was Adolf Berle, a Brain Truster and coauthor of the monumental book The Modern Corporation and Private Property.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	brain trust
释义	brain trustn. Brit. /ˈbreɪn trʌst/, U.S. /ˈbreɪn ˌtrəst/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brain n., trust n. Etymology: < brain n. + trust n. (compare trust n. 8). Compare later brains trust n. Chiefly U.S. (originally slang). A group of expert advisers or planners; the body in charge. Also attributive.Popularized in 1933 as the name for a group of experts appointed to advise the American President F. D. Roosevelt on political and economic matters. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > group of expert advisers brain trust1890 brains trust1933 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority > group of brain trust1890 brains trust1933 think factory1958 think-tank1958 1890 New Ideal Jan. 30 They have paid a fearful penalty for the mistake they have made in doing their thinking by proxy. The worst Trust that can threaten society is a brain Trust. 1903 Sat. Evening Post 21 Mar. 1 (heading) The brain trust. The oligarchy that rules the country. 1910 in Amer. Speech (1957) 32 57 Brain trust [in sense ‘college faculty’]. 1913 Sat. Evening Post 3 Aug. 7 Of course, you'd be way back, cookin' up fancy dishes for the Brain Trust, while I'd be up front can-openin' for a bunch of roughnecks. 1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France 88 Through the Chief of Staff and through the Commander-in-Chief, this ‘brain trust’, as the line called it, had its policies executed when they were approved. 1933 Time 3 Apr. 12/1 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime Columbia University professor and Roosevelt ‘brain trust’ member. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Aug. 8/6 The ‘brain trust’ of the gang chooses a city for the ‘operation’ located within a hundred miles of a State boundary line. 1937 C. Odets Golden Boy i. iii. 45 The people who'll pay to watch a ‘brain trust’ you could fit in a telephone booth! 1968 A. Hailey Airport i. viii. 83 There were other sessions, some of them ‘brain trust’ affairs involving Kennedy aides. 1980 S. Fuller Big Red 288 The brain-trust boys in London..had accumulated a mountain of OSS information. 2002 New Yorker 11 Feb. 27/1 People who had previously been working on stuff only the Pentagon could use were suddenly free to invent and develop stuff civilians might want. The brain trust turned its attention from guns to butter. Derivatives ˈbrain truster n. a member of a brain trust. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority > group of > member of brain truster1933 think-tanker1966 1933 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/4 Arrayed against each other in this conflict are: Brain Trusters: Professor R. G. Tugwell, young assistant secretary of agriculture;..Professor Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, chief of the professorial ‘kitchen cabinet’ and Roosevelt's general utility man. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Apr. 2 Foreign Ministers, advisers, and anonymous brain trusters. 1959 R. G. Fuller Danger! Marines at Work! 64 ‘That's the Board of Directors’, Maxwellington said sourly. ‘The battalion brain-trusters’. 1992 Newsweek (Special Election Issue) Nov.–Dec. 61/1 Bush had invited a dozen of his outside brain trusters to the White House for lunch, bonhomie and some postmortem political shoptalk. 2006 K. Mattson in N. Lichtenstein Amer. Capitalism ii. iv. 93 Perhaps the best exemplar of this was Adolf Berle, a Brain Truster and coauthor of the monumental book The Modern Corporation and Private Property. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1890
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