hierarch

noun

Definition of hierarchnext
as in executive

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Recent Examples of hierarch Earlier this month, Cupich took part in the papal conclave that elected Prevost as pope on May 8, stunning many Catholic scholars and hierarchs who didn’t anticipate an American would be named pontiff. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 His speech was criticized in a statement from the Antiochian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Serbian American Orthodox hierarchs. — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 His message on Monday was a confirmation from AI’s hierarch that the disruptors had been disrupted. — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025 In the immediate aftermath of communism there was a flurry of revelations about collaboration between Russian hierarchs and the KGB, but soon the files snapped shut. — The Economist, 11 Aug. 2019 The affair follows a two-year-old drive by Archbishop Charles Thompson, the local hierarch, to make sure that Catholic teaching is observed in all the places under his purview. — Erasmus, The Economist, 14 July 2019 That paved the way for Archbishop Ieronymos to join the primate of the new Ukrainian church, Epifaniy, and many other Bartholomew-minded hierarchs at celebrations in Istanbul of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s personal feast-day on June 11th. — Erasmus, The Economist, 15 June 2019 Unfortunately the ability to communicate successfully across other barriers, whether geopolitical or simply personal, is currently eluding the Christians of the East, or at least their hierarchs. — Erasmus, The Economist, 15 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarch
  1. executive
  2. administrator
  3. commander
  4. leader
  5. general
  6. employer
  7. chief
  8. governor
Noun
  • The young Microsoft executive had just dropped off his twins at his ex-wife’s home in Jacksonville Beach on a warm, late-winter Florida evening.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Two other former Drive Planning executives were also sentenced this week.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of executive
Noun
  • She was succeeded by Peevy, who previously worked as an athletics administrator at Kentucky and a media relations director for the Southeastern Conference.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The bets were small, committed to memory to avoid scrutiny from teachers and administrators, with pots of around $20 settled at the end of the week.
    — Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of administrator
Noun
  • Israel said its strikes in southern Lebanon, which killed at least 11 people, targeted two Hezbollah commanders.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former rebel commander who has served as Syria’s President since 2025, has been outward looking since taking power.
    — Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of commander
Noun
  • Should a college football team make the College Football Playoff because the sport’s leaders see them as an up-and-coming team that could use some extra cash, exposure and experience?
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The Nigerian leader began his administration with centerpiece economic reforms.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of leader
Noun
  • The Illinois auditor general found several oversight issues with the state's Emergency Management Agency-Office of Homeland Security, which helped coordinate the state's response to COVID-19 and the migrant crisis in the Chicago area.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Specifically, David Ellison, the CEO of Paramount Skydance, is threatening to move the company out of California starting in October unless the state's attorney general agrees to resolve the merger via a settlement, according to Variety.
    — Noe Padilla, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of general
Noun
  • But the public should also understand what happens when institutions reduce job security while continuing to pay way less than competing employers.
    — Francisco Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The employers’ association Gesamtmetall reported in December 2025 that Germany’s metal and electrical engineering industry, the country’s largest, was shedding nearly 10,000 jobs a month.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of employer
Noun
  • Bulldozers and excavators in Texas’ Big Bend National Park are at a standstill as the chief of US Customs and Border Protection visits to assess how the agency should move forward with plans for new border security measures.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The team was in the midst of a fourth consecutive losing season when Jeanie removed Jim, general manager Mitch Kupchak and longtime public relations chief John Black in February 2017.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of chief
Noun
  • Neither the governor's office nor Wilson's office has explained why those two sections were left out between the May draft and the final trailer bill.
    — Julie Watts, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • If the minority sale were to go through, Jeanie Buss would no longer be governor, the official title for an NBA team’s controlling owner.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of governor

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