Head
Top brass
Top brass noun - The most important persons in a governing body.
Head and top brass are semantically related in persons running an organization topic. You can use "Head" instead a noun phrase "Top brass", if it concerns topics such as person in charge, person who manages an organization, leader of military or other organization.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Head-in-the-Sand Management: The army's top brass is pretty much incapable of understanding or accepting anything that doesn't fit what they were planning to do anyway.
Source: Literature / Stark's War -
Their top brass includes a half-Japanese/half-Britannian woman as his right-hand (Kallen), an Indian woman running the R&D department (Rakshata), and a Britannian as the head of PR (Diethard).
Source: Equal-Opportunity Evil - Gabriel Logan from Syphon Filter ends up killing half the top brass of the Agency, witnesses the deaths of the other half, and becomes the new head honcho, giving him authority to reform it into the more benign International Presidential Consulting Agency.
Source: Conspiracy Redemption
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