top brass (n.)

• aide
• aide-de-camp
• baron
• bigwig
• board
• brass
• brigadier
• bureaucracy
• cabinet
• cadre
• captain
• celebrity
• colonel
• commandant
• commander
• council
• dignitary
• dignity
• directorate
• directory
• elder
• exec
• father
• figure
• general
• generalissimo
• hierarchy
• infrastructure
• interests
• lieutenant
• lion
• magnate
• major
• management
• marshal
• ministry
• mogul
• nabob
• name
• notability
• notable
• officer
• officialdom
• panjandrum
• personage
• personality
• power
• prelacy
• sachem
• sirdar
• somebody
• something
• subaltern
• sublieutenant
• them
• they
• tycoon
• worthy