Entry Word: head

Function: adjective

Meaning: highest in rank or authority <Mr. Pendergast, head editor at the TV station for 17 years, has hired and fired innumerable staff members>

Synonyms chief, commanding, first, foremost, high, lead, leading, managing, preeminent, premier, presiding, primary, prime, principal, supreme

Related Words high-level, senior; controlling, directing, officiating, overseeing, reigning, ruling, supervisory; main, major, paramount, predominant; dominant, grand, superior, topmost, upmost, upper, uppermost

Phrases in charge

Near Antonyms inferior, last, lesser, lower, lowly, second, secondary, subordinate; assistant, assisting, coadjutor, deputy, junior, under