chief

[tʃiːf]

Definition:
1. A person who is in charge.
2. A person who exercises control over workers.
3. Most important element.

Use 'chief' in a sentence:

• 1. As chief executive, he assembled a polished stable of celebrities.
• 2. Tourism is now the chief industry of Dawson City.
• 3. The Chief was left speechless by this fatuous remark.
• 4. If she were involved in business, she would make a strong chief executive.
• 5. For the moment, it constitutes their chief danger.
• 6. The chief handicrafts of this country are pottery and wood carving.
• 7. He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
• 8. She took over as chief executive of the Book Trust.
• 9. The chief designer has just completed a new improved model.
• 10. Back at the station the chief inspector returned the call.
• 11. In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me.
• 12. The chief killer was the widely used DDT.
• 13. Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
• 14. The chief editorial writer also blames weak leadership for the current crisis.
• 15. FA chiefs could still face a rap and a possible fine.
• 16. The company's chief operating officer was the numero-uno fund-raiser for the event.
• 17. 75 percent of chief executives come from inside the company.
• 18. This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony.
• 19. The sultan was still nominally the chief of staff.
• 20. The programme of sell-offs has been implemented by the new chief executive.
• 21. He is the company's chief financial officer.
• 22. His plans almost caught security chiefs and hotel staff on the hop.
• 23. Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce.
• 24. The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
• 25. Water industry chiefs were rapped yesterday for failing their customers.
• 26. He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe.
• 27. He was the smoothest and probably the most powerful chief of staff in political memory.
• 28. I am astounded at the comments made by the Chief Superintendent.
• 29. US Bancorp chief Richard Davis sees the situation differently.
• 30. He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
• 31. Chief Hart had sole control over that fund.
• 32. The Chief turned and swept out.
• 33. On Thursday night the rebels' chief negotiator at the peace talks announced that dialogue had gone as far as it could go.
• 34. The chief objection to this book is its great length.
• 35. Yesterday saw the resignation of the chief financial officer.
• 36. A'cai, chief of Tu Gu Hun, had 20 sons.
• 37. Back at the station the Chief Inspector returned the call.
• 38. Rainey's chief interest in life is hunting with hounds.
• 39. He had the good fortune to marry off his daughter to the local chief.
• 40. Atlanta was voted the best city in which to locate a business by more than 400 chief executives.
• 41. There are many undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance.
• 42. He clerked for the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
• 43. Police chiefs strongly defended police conduct against a wave of criticism.
• 44. That's John Gibb, operations chief for New York Emergency Management.
• 45. Their chief negotiator turned his critical eye on the United States.
• 46. You yourself are one of the chief offenders.
• 47. The chief of naval operations wants to open opportunities for women in the Navy.
• 48. NATO remains the United States' chief institutional anchor in Europe.
• 49. The CEO has named a new chief financial officer.
• 50. Unemployment was the chief cause of poverty.
• 51. His chances do not seem good in view of the fact that the Chief Prosecutor has already voiced his public disapproval.
• 52. The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.