mastermind
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WOTD - 3 August 2009
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑː.stəˌmaɪnd/
- (US) IPA: /ˈmæs.tɚˌmaɪnd/
Noun
mastermind (plural masterminds)
- A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill that is markedly superior to his or her peers.
- 2003 Steve Kemper, Chapter 2, Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World, ISBN 1578516730, page 34:
- His first outside hire wasn't an electronics whiz or a mechanical mastermind, but a young industrial designer, a creature hitherto unknown at DEKA.
- A person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation.
- 2007 Mark S. Hamm, Chapter 6, Terrorism as Crime: from Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond, ISBN 0814736963, page 196:
- The first was with none other than Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
Verb
to mastermind (third-person singular simple present masterminds, present participle masterminding, simple past and past participle masterminded)
- To act in the role of mastermind.
- 2007 Kevin Danaher et al., Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, ISBN 0977825361, page 136:
- It would later be revealed that the corporation contributed over a quarter of a million dollars to the effort—a whopping 93 percent of the total coffer—and hired a team of media and political experts to mastermind it.
Translations
to act as mastermind
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