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noun (sometimes lowercase)British.

brain trust.

a panel of experts on radio or television, giving impromptu answers to selected questions from the listening audience.

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How to use Brains Trust in a sentence

If you read the reactions, she was billed as ‘Beauty and Brains.’
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Three films about British brains show the trouble of bringing otherworldly intelligence to the big screen.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We proud skeptics would rather trust the demonstrable facts than the alleged truth.
On Torture, Chuck Johnson & Sondheim|James Poulos|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And ultimately this creates steadily eroding trust among voters for not just politics but the institutions of government.
Just What We Needed: More Campaign Spending|Mark McKinnon|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Others have taken the stage to tell women to just work harder and trust in karma.
Tech’s Male ‘Feminists’ Aren’t Helping|Cate Huston, Karen Catlin|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
As if unwilling to trust himself longer in dangerous companionship, he went up to town with Thomas Carr.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
I would not trust their removal to any other hand, and so, the panel comes out without a shake.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

British Dictionary definitions for Brains Trust

brains trust

noun

a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television

Also called: brain trust US a group of experts who advise the government

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