0 the person planning and controlling an undertaking or scheme -- vůdčí osobnost
He was the mastermind behind the scheme.
1 to plan (such a scheme) -- řídit, organizovat
Who masterminded the robbery?
I rather liked him saying, as one who had just masterminded the winning of a general election, that he was quite a keen politician.
One does not need to be an expert on the sea to be able to mastermind some sophisticated frauds.
Surely the traffic director will be the man who must mastermind the implementation of the various schemes proposed.
Yet the party that masterminded that disaster had the nerve to call this debate tonight.
He has masterminded—if that is the right word—the changes.
He masterminded the huge tax bonanza—the giveaway—to those who did not need it, which caused all the problems that the country now faces.
However, the other benchmarks do not use untraced libraries, in order to be fair, the ratios related to mastermind are not taken into account in the averages given below.
A number of very peculiar objects were indeed found (these were mostly studied in detail later), but none of these appeared likely to be the product of alien masterminds.