Noun : senators and other political bigwigs.    From Dictionary.com. 

Your presentation for the company bigwigs is tomorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Juggle work, personal duties with the right employer] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment - Female First] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009] Reference

I had to resign myself to the "bigwigs" and to my continuing quarrels with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commandant of Auschwitz]

I got to admit, listening to the "bigwigs" of the financial industry is quite comical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joshing Politics] Reference

"bigwigs" to use the airline instead of flying privately.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

As even the game's director, Shu Takumi, thought it a challenge to explain his new mystery game to the "bigwigs" at Capcom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

Senate a number of military bigwigs addressing this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006] Reference

But then company bigwigs put the kibosh on future research.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Splice': Your Results May Vary (And Be Scary)] Reference

BBA bigwigs may well share her views, but Agius's tactics look smarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [New BBA chair Marcus Agius takes softer approach on banking commission] Reference

It's hard to imagine a more fraught time for a show about business bigwigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’s the Boss?] Reference

Lots of Woodside folk and Valley bigwigs she was curious to find out about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones of the Amazon, Part I of a Novella] Reference

Cochrane, who asked me to dinner, where I met the Governor and some more bigwigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

His VC firm Neoteny imports Internet values, and he's got the ear of local bigwigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEADERS OF THE PACK] Reference

His VC firm Neoteny imports Internet values, and he's got the ear of bigwigs in Tokyo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaders of The Pack] Reference

And even the ruling-party bigwigs are talking about "restructuring," or budget cutting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Our Fair City, Bring Back The Clown!] Reference

"Meanwhile, let's sit down and see if we can't figure out a way to pacify the local bigwigs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

Some of Hollywood's bigwigs, in-eluding Oliver Stone's company, have taken a look at this gem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heard The Tapes? Skip The Script.] Reference

(The plan would also make it more difficult for disgraced corporate bigwigs to shield assets.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Watch] Reference

"Through the White House, bigwigs and littlewigs come and go," the narrator intones in one episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoMA Marches to the Beat of History] Reference

But Aerion, a jet maker in Reno, Nevada, is betting that it's not fast enough for some busy bigwigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEED OR ELEGANCE?] Reference

Technology bigwigs such as Oracle, Sun and IBM have also approached the group to help with the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

One thing's for sure, knowing how to get business bigwigs to show you the money, that is "Raw Politics.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2004] Reference

It was also hinted that he could tell the bigwigs a thing or two if he had been consulted in affairs of State.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

In my travels I get to meet all types of people, from hotshot politicians to corporate bigwigs to average citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florence Hudson: Sustainable Buildings: What Are We Waiting For?] Reference

Of course, most right-wing American bigwigs who are gung-ho for unnecessary wars want nothing to do with fighting them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Astor: The Draft to End All Drafts] Reference

The spouses of MK board bigwigs like former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth and stock-market whiz Peter Lynch joined up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bad News Board] Reference

It's a cliquish community, and many socialites, political bigwigs, industrialists and financiers like to party among themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Hours: Delhi] Reference

U.S. Soccer bigwigs toured New York on Tuesday to drum up interest in their attempt to win votes to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 22-Point Win Can Get You Demoted] Reference

This was a meeting of private-sector bigwigs -- no community groups or affordable housing advocates were invited to speak at the meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Save Affordable Housing, Help Revive America's Middle Class] Reference

China's nouveaux riches may now be known among their jealous neighbors as "moneybags" (dakuan), "big shots" (dawan) or "bigwigs" (daheng).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foreign Devil's Dictionary] Reference

About half the 1,166 seats in the auditorium will go to students via a lottery; the rest have been allotted to bigwigs and China scholars.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Gonna Be A Long Week] Reference