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  • noun Plural form of bigwig.

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Examples

  • Your presentation for the company bigwigs is tomorrow.

    USATODAY.com - Juggle work, personal duties with the right employer 2002

  • I know that the way royalties are computed usually results in artists-who deserve any money from a song being streamed through crappy computers more than any label bigwigs or digital-music "visionaries," let's be honest-being paid after everyone else.

    Idolator 2009

  • Gingrich and Santorum, far from being imitations of former GOPer bigwigs, are former GOPer bigwigs, which is even worse.

    Shan Wells: Buh-Bye Pizza Guy Shan Wells 2011

  • Gingrich and Santorum, far from being imitations of former GOPer bigwigs, are former GOPer bigwigs, which is even worse.

    Shan Wells: Buh-Bye Pizza Guy Shan Wells 2011

  • We are living in two realities, those of us who suffer through this deteriorating economy and at the other end of the spectrum, self-entitled bigwigs who act with impunity.

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009 2009

  • We shouldn't let the so-called bigwigs, everyone from Metallica and their common practice of suing their fans to the boarding up of the sorely-missed Tower Records stop us from buying CDs.

    Sal Nunziato: The Fault Is Not In Our Rock Stars, But In Ourselves 2008

  • Jonas Brothers and various business bigwigs, which is virtually tied with Chevy Chase Section Five.

    Forbes.com: News Tom Van Riper 2012

  • We will be depending on him to provide solid leadership to Caricom as he and his colleagues take the Caribbean's case not only to Obama but to the Latin American bigwigs.

    Jamaica Gleaner Online 2009

  • The actress / singer admits she's refusing to return calls and messages from record label bigwigs, because she's not ready to release another album just yet.

    Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie 2008

  • The actress / singer admits she's refusing to return calls and messages from record label bigwigs - because she's not ready to release another album just yet.

    Entertainment - Female First 2008

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