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Definition of chief
1 : accorded highest rank or office chief librarian the company's chief executive
2 : of greatest importance or influence the chief reasons their chief accomplishment
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Examples of chief in a Sentence
the chief engineer on the project
Her job is their chief source of income.
He has many concerns, chief among them his health.
Recent Examples of chief from the Web
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Guests include Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Bank, Luigi Zingales, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Bob Profusek, partner at Jones Day.
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Lord, then in his late 20s, moved from California to join the 18-year-old Frankel, still living at his parents’ home in Sedona, Arizona—where his father, attorney Charles Frankel, acted as the company’s counsel and chief financial officer.
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In the meantime, the chief executive and his entire staff had complete authority over who quoted them and how.
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Mark Hetfield, president and chief executive of the resettlement agency HIAS told the New York Times.
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Later on Friday, Dylan Howard, chief content officer and vice president at American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer, released a statement about the claims.
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Oh, this could go away.’ Trump's connections to the Enquirer, the mainstay of grocery store checkout lines across the country, were recently the subject of a New Yorker profile of David Pecker, the chief executive of the Enquirer's parent company.
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The Belgian designer might be best known for his extensive fashion resume—and his post as the chief creative officer of Calvin Klein—
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Jim Sciutto, CNN’s chief national security correspondent, has lived all over the world and reported from more than 50 countries.
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Origin and Etymology of chief
see 3chief
First Known Use of chief
14th century
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Definition of chief
1 : the upper part of a heraldic field
2 : the head of a body of persons or an organization : leader chief of police
3 : the principal or most valuable part would never rest till she had read the chief of the letter to him — Jane Austen
in chief
: in the chief position or place —often used in titles commander in chief
Examples of chief in a Sentence
the chief of the estate was left to the eldest son
our chief is out on a business trip right now
Recent Examples of chief from the Web
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Earlier this year, a White House statement announced the first lady's decision to hire Lindsay Reynolds, a veteran of the George W. Bush administration, as her chief of staff.
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Steve Fobes, the zoo’s chief architect, said the project was first presented to the board of trustees about a decade ago.
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Command of the Space Corps would fall to its own chief, equal in rank to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, who would sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and answer to the Secretary of the Air Force.
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Security cameras inside the cleaners, at 1761 Morthland Drive, captured what happened, said John Kroll, the fire department's division chief.
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Sandlass, along with Rachel Holmes, chief of the county's bureau of revenue collections; Paula Anis, assistant supervisor of revenue collections; treasurer's office attorney Alan Getz; and intern Magdalena Chojnowska took part in the sale.
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Attorneys for Ramsey and his chief of staff, Kathleen Smith, who ran the foundation, have denied wrongdoing, and Smith's lawyer, Ann Oldfather, said last week that Smith raised 50 times as much for the university than she was paid.
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Axtell took a different approach from that of many other police chiefs and apologized to Frank Baker, who was repeatedly bitten by a police dog and kicked by an officer.
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Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein and Citigroup’s Michael Corbat, as well as Citigroup consumer-banking chief Stephen Bird, responded over the weekend to emails sent by the anonymous prankster masquerading as top executives at...
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Origin and Etymology of chief
Middle English, from Anglo-French chief, chef head, chief, from Latin caput head — more at head
CHIEF Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of chief for English Language Learners
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: highest in rank or authority
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: most important
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Definition of chief for English Language Learners
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: the person who is the leader of a group of people, of an organization, etc.
CHIEF Defined for Kids
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