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[ adjective ] most important element
Examples "the chief aim of living" "the main doors were of solid glass" "the principal rivers of America" "the principal example" "policemen were primary targets" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)`` Unfortunately '' , says Chief_Postal_Inspector_David_H._Stephens , who has prosecuted many device quacks , `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called_up in court '' . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Northern liberals are the chief supporters of civil_rights and of integration . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The chief experience is the sensing of communion , and in the higher religions , of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)Wilson came by train from Birmingham and looked the city over ; the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a person who is in charge
Examples "the head of the whole operation" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)He goes_to the chief himself . He refuses to believe that the bandit chief never attended a higher institution . The chief , annoyed by these questions , knocks Voltaire down and shouts at him that he not_only never went_to any school , but never even learned how to read . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)He saw the smug eyes of the Home_Army chief , Roman , and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him . |
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[ adjective ] (of persons) highest in rank or authority or office
Examples "his arch rival" "the boss man" "the chief executive" "head librarian" "top administrators" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)Intercede for our separated brethren , that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the chief Shepherd , the vicar of thy Son '' . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)In 1931 Mrs._F._H._Briggs , agent and chief operator , who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years ' service , led agency offices in sales for the year with $ 2490 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (work) a person who exercises control over workers
Examples "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" Used in print (Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad_luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take_off on a combat_mission . Related terms |
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