bigwig

noun

big·​wig ˈbig-ˌwig How to pronounce bigwig (audio)
: an important person

Examples of bigwig in a Sentence

a bigwig in local politics interviewed by several bigwigs on the hospital's staff
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Of course, then, life later imitated art with tech bigwigs trying to use something similar to Johansson‘s voice to equip an LLM. John Werner, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Free-market economics bigwigs, at the request of Trump, have assembled a team to push making the president’s 2017 tax cuts permanent — and to do it as quickly as possible. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025 All the while, the heroic couple was dogged by not just a team of lovebird assassins, but an inscrutable bunch of White House bigwigs. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Jan. 2025 Meta was briefly the bigwig in the AR/VR space 10 years ago when Meta (then Facebook) bought the VR company Oculus. Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bigwig

Word History

First Known Use

1703, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bigwig was in 1703

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“Bigwig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigwig. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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bigwig

noun
big·​wig ˈbig-ˌwig How to pronounce bigwig (audio)
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