chief
[tʃiːf]
Definition:
1. A person who is in charge.
2. A person who exercises control over workers.
3. Most important element.
'chief' example sentence:
- As chief executive, he assembled a polished stable of celebrities.
- Tourism is now the chief industry of Dawson City.
- The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.
- If she were involved in business, she would make a strong chief executive.
- For the moment, it constitutes their chief danger.
- The chief handicrafts of this country are pottery and wood carving.
- He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
- She took over as chief executive of the Book Trust.
- The chief designer has just completed a new improved model.
- Back at the station the chief inspector returned the call.
- In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me.
- The chief killer was the widely used DDT.
- Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
- The chief editorial writer also blames weak leadership for the current crisis.
- FA chiefs could still face a rap and a possible fine.
- The company's chief operating officer was the numero-uno fund-raiser for the event.
- 75 percent of chief executives come from inside the company.
- This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony.
- The sultan was still nominally the chief of staff.
- The programme of sell-offs has been implemented by the new chief executive.
- He is the company's chief financial officer.
- His plans almost caught security chiefs and hotel staff on the hop.
- Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce.
- The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
- Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers.
- He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe.
- He was the smoothest and probably the most powerful chief of staff in political memory.
- I am astounded at the comments made by the Chief Superintendent.
- US Bancorp chief Richard Davis sees the situation differently.
- He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
- Chief Hart had sole control over that fund.
- The Chief turned and swept out.
- On Thursday night the rebels' chief negotiator at the peace talks announced that dialogue had gone as far as it could go.
- The chief objection to this book is its great length.
- Yesterday saw the resignation of the chief financial officer.
- A'cai, chief of Tu Gu Hun, had 20 sons.
- Back at the station the Chief Inspector returned the call.
- Rainey's chief interest in life is hunting with hounds.
- He had the good fortune to marry off his daughter to the local chief.
- Atlanta was voted the best city in which to locate a business by more than 400 chief executives.
- There are many undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance.
- He clerked for the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
- Police chiefs strongly defended police conduct against a wave of criticism.
- That's John Gibb, operations chief for New York Emergency Management.
- Their chief negotiator turned his critical eye on the United States.
- You yourself are one of the chief offenders.
- The chief of naval operations wants to open opportunities for women in the Navy.
- NATO remains the United States' chief institutional anchor in Europe.
- The CEO has named a new chief financial officer.
- Unemployment was the chief cause of poverty.
- His chances do not seem good in view of the fact that the Chief Prosecutor has already voiced his public disapproval.
- The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.