smallwig

Noun

1. A minor functionary or stakeholder.
   • A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusck the Cardenasparty of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business...
   • The bigwigs of the agency will make the presentation that will win your heart — and your business. But the smallwigs will do all the work. - 1994, Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerrilla Advertising, →ISBN:
   • The second week in August happened to be the week of the annual New Music Seminar, an industry talking shop where every bigwig and smallwig from every record company in America would descend — a great place for getting...