(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 12th edition of the winter spinoff of Art Basel, the prestigious Swiss art fair, is drawing the usual assortment of private jet passengers, museum bigwigs, advisers, consultants and social butterflies.
(2) Owing to the whole “ underage sex slave allegations ” thing currently besetting the Duke of York, an utterly bewildering number of bigwigs are coming out of the woodwork to speak up for Andy’s indispensability.
(3) "If you are a sibling of someone who is very important in China, automatically people will see you as a potential agent of influence and will treat you well in the hope of gaining guanxi [connections] with the bigwig relative," said Roderick MacFarquhar, an expert on Chinese elite politics at Harvard University.
(4) Under the gaze of protesters, Republican bigwigs such as Condoleezza Rice arrived to pay homage to – and write cheques for – a governor who has taken stances against gay marriage and the issue of raising taxes on the rich, while at the same time embarking on a union-bashing crusade against teachers in his home state.
(5) He has capitalised on his international upbringing and education to become chairman of Socialist International and build bonds with such global bigwigs as economics Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz and former US president Bill Clinton.
(6) But don't think it's just Republican bigwigs and oil execs rushing to lend the pipeline a hand.
(7) But the arrests of seven Fifa bigwigs in Zurich on Wednesday, and the coordination of a raid on Fifa’s $100m headquarters down the road with a raid on the Miami HQ of international football’s north and central American federation caught everyone off their guard.
(8) But,” he says without a trace of hyperbole, “I believe the journey up there will be the thing.” Inside the hangar we hear speeches from Virgin Galactic bigwigs, trumpeting what a fabulous achievement the new aircraft is.
(9) "On the doorstep," lamented one Labour bigwig, "people saw it as Boris v Ken."
(10) King, and four other Bank bigwigs, have been called to answer questions about the latest financial stability report – we expect plenty of questions on the eurozone crisis.
(11) New Labour bigwigs insisted that those voters “had nowhere else to go”.
(12) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(13) Against all the conventional wisdom of the then prevailing mindset of the studios’ marketing bigwigs, Universal Pictures – with a new monster on hand to match such signature Universal properties as Frankenstein and Dracula – decided on an unprecedentedly wide immediate opening in an era when the move was still largely a ploy to defang bad early word-of-mouth by vacuuming up all the available ticket-buyer money before the bad news got out (actually, this still holds good now).
(14) The bigwigs pressured the police to prosecute me," he says.
(15) One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken.
(16) I am a casual tutor, you are permanent (an academic, subject coordinator, faculty bigwig).
(17) That combination has clearly endeared her to the SNL bigwigs: she was one of four musical performers on the show’s 40th anniversary special, alongside Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Paul Simon.
(18) Don't all the bigwig shrinks – your Freuds, Jungs and Laings – drone on about the importance of separation, individuation and self-actualisation?
(19) Given the ceremony’s choice of host, the outspoken Chris Rock, it’ll be a nervous night for Academy bigwigs.
(20) Better Together had Gordon Brown's impassioned rhetoric; it parachuted in Westminster bigwigs to make hurried vows for new Scottish powers.
Person
Definition:
(n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
(n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
(n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
(n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
(n.) A parson; the parish priest.
(n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
(n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
(n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
(v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
(19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.