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brass ceilings

brass ceilings is the plural of brass ceiling.

Meaning of brass ceiling

Noun

brass ceiling (plural brass ceilings)

  1. (idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to promotion or progression for women in law enforcement or the military.

Questions about brass ceilings

What is brass ceilings the plural of?
Brass ceilings is the plural of brass ceiling.

Words near brass ceilings in the dictionary

  1. brass bands
  2. brass button
  3. brass catcher
  4. brass catchers
  5. brass ceiling
  6. brass ceilings
  7. brass choir
  8. brass farthing
  9. brass farthings
  10. brass founders' ague
  11. brass hat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brass ceilings (page history and authors); brass ceiling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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