Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mastermind
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Mastermind
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(masterminds, masterminding, masterminded) 1. If you mastermind a difficult or complicated activity, you plan it in detail and then make sure that it happens successfully. The finance minister will continue to mastermind Poland’s economic reform... VERB: V n 2. The mastermind behind a difficult or complicated plan, often a criminal one, is the person who is responsible for planning and organizing it. He was the mastermind behind the plan to acquire the explosives. N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp, oft N behind/of n
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I. noun Date: 1872 a person who supplies the directing or creative intelligence for a project II. transitive verb Date: 1940 to be the ~ of ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. & v. --n. 1 a a person with an outstanding intellect. b such an intellect. 2 the person directing an intricate operation. --v.tr. plan and direct (a scheme or enterprise). ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. выдающийся ум; властитель дум 2. руководитель, особ. неофициальный; вдохновитель 3. разг. управлять, руководить (особ. тайно) he masterminded the plan —- он разработал весь план ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) выдающийся ум 2) руководитель, вдохновитель (особ. тайный, неофициальный) 2. v. управлять, руководить (особ. тайно) ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n someone who plans and organizes a complicated operation, especially a criminal operation (the mastermind of an ingenious financial swindle) ~2 v to think of, plan, and organize a large, important, and difficult operation (The election campaign was masterminded by Peter Walters.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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{v.} To create; direct; invent the central plan for several individuals to follow. * /Lenin masterminded the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia./ MASTERMIND {n.} A person who supplies the intelligence for a project and/or undertakes its management. * /Winston Churchill was the mastermind in the war against Hitler./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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