Definition of "brain trust" [brain trust]

• A group of experts who serve, usually unofficially, as advisers and policy planners, especially in a government. (noun)
• Such a group associated with the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the development of the New Deal. (noun)
• Chiefly British A group of experts gathered to discuss issues informally in public, especially on radio or television. (noun)

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• "Did the UAES brain trust fall for Considine’s sub-rosa move — planting newspaper and radio pieces that said the grand jury investigation had gone down — and just how strongly is UAES connected to the Communist Party?"