"bigwig" is a correct word in written English.
It is an informal noun that refers to an important or influential person in an organization, industry, or society. Example sentence: Many of the tech industry's biggest bigwigs gathered at the latest trade show.
One old Disney bigwig said you had a voice like you'd "swallowed Pat Benatar".
At that time I was the chief sidekick on Danny Baker's Radio 1 show and some BBC bigwig had decided that it would be a good idea if we did one show from America, where the World Cup was in full swing.
McKenna, who has chaired Chicago's White Sox and Cubs baseball teams and is on the board of the Chicago Bears football team, has been named the "bigwig other bigwigs seek out for advice" by Chicago Magazine.
Cheers pal!" We talk more about Howard, a management speak-obsessed practice bigwig.
One Tata bigwig recently joked that were "Neutron" Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, to take charge of Tata, the firm would be ripped apart in the name of shareholder value.
By the by, he has emphasised a need to speed up Iran's internet connections which have been slowed down in the run-up to the election to make it harder to visit uncensored foreign news sites.The second bigwig in the conservative coalition is Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign minister during Iran's long war with Iraq (1980-88) and a long-serving foreign-policy adviser to the supreme leader.
Usually it will go to a village bigwig, perhaps with a little help from local officials.The main winners, though, are the arhtiyas, the commission agents who act as middlemen between farmers and wholesale buyers and at the same time moonlight, sometimes extortionately, as moneylenders.
Sallie Krawcheck, a former Citigroup bigwig who was hired last August to run wealth management, has worked hard to scotch rumours that the brokers would lose their cherished commission-based pay structure or would be turned into glorified bank tellers.The stampede out of the door has slowed to a trotThese efforts are bearing fruit.
At a recent Harvard colloquium, a bigwig from one of the large consultancies told his audience of star professors that the only person he valued at the school was the admissions officer.
One bigwig after another used his moment on stage to pander and promote long-standing ideas and priorities.
Two days later, another bigwig heading to Berlin to urge a bail-out, the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Ángel Gurría, said the danger of contagion in the euro-zone called for swift action.
