Usually means: Important person with significant influence.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word big cheese:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. big cheese, the big cheese: Merriam-Webster
  2. big cheese: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big cheese: Collins English Dictionary
  4. big cheese: Vocabulary.com
  5. big cheese: Wiktionary
  6. big cheese: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. big cheese: Dictionary.com
  8. Big Cheese (band), Big Cheese (disambiguation), Big Cheese (magazine), Big Cheese (song), Big Cheese: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. big cheese: Rhymezone
  10. big cheese: FreeDictionary.org
  11. big cheese: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. big cheese: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Big cheese: World Wide Words
  14. Big cheese: Phrase Finder
  15. big cheese: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. big cheese: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. big cheese: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Big Cheese: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (big cheese)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization.

Similar:
grand fromage, big shot, big white chief, big noise, cheese, big enchilada, big hitter, bigwig, big fish, supremo, more...

Opposite:
nobody, small fry, underling, subordinate

Phrases:
big cheese at food, big cheese in the netherlands, more...

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Similar:
grand fromage, big shot, big white chief, big noise, cheese, big enchilada, big hitter, bigwig, big fish, supremo, more...

Opposite:
nobody, small fry, underling, subordinate

Phrases:
big cheese at food, big cheese in the netherlands, more...



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