chief
∞
3.2
- adjective
- /tʃif/
:
principal
- The caption read: "Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, Arriving at Murder Scene."
- chief executive officer
- chief executive
- chief justice
I said TK you can call your chief economist A Lyft loyalist.
- I said TK you can call your chief economist A Lyft loyalist.
- And I realized at the time that my father's chief value in life was security.
- I call myself CEO, chief education officer.
- He was the CDO chief design officer of Apple.
- And then I was chief sparring partner.
- There would be an end all at once to all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
- And you would be foolish to think that unless apparently you're AMD's chief debater.
- Your brain and your gut are the two chief organ systems that really most disease starts with.
- And I said, so guys, I just want to say in terms of WWE, I'm chief brand officer.
Examples
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Her chief concern is the safety of her children while they are at school.
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OK, And what is their chief complaint, pray tell?
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So for me, being mom and chief is and always will be job number one.
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Just how far can our nation's chief executive go in the interest of national security?
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And it is within my power as the chief executive to take this action.
Fiction book (1990) -
Despite his limited official powers, he became the chief civilian official in Georgia.
Academic text (2011) -
And they view that as their chief goal, preserving the institution.
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Let me preface this by saying that my chief concern is the welfare, indeed the sanity, of this young girl.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Joanna McCauley and I'm your chief flight attendant.
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Vivia Chen is the chief blogger at Careerist and a senior reporter for American Lawyer.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Most important or central in a situation
∞
2.5
Being most important or basic
737
3.9
Highest in rank, quality, or importance
528
2.1
Very important and needed for something to work
320
2.8
Most important person or thing in a situation
122
4.2
Most important in a group or area
70
1.0
Better than all others in quality or importance
61
4.5
Most important or best in a group of similar things
45
6.7
More important than anything else
29
5.0
Very important and basic to how something works
22
4.0
More important than other things
17
8.0
The most respected and well known in a particular field
Most important and successful in a field
In the most important place in your mind
Antonyms
Compounds
172
5.2
A senior military officer who leads a branch and manages its operations and administration
- Formal
77
5.5
An official title for the US President as the leader who runs the government
- Literature
49
4.4
A person who leads a newspaper or magazine and decides what goes in it
15
3.4
A senior manager who looks after a company's money, makes budgets, and prepares financial reports
- Formal
15
4.9
A senior manager who runs a company's daily work and reports to the chief executive officer
8
3.6
A senior doctor who leads the hospital doctors and makes sure medical care is safe
1
7.0
A senior police officer who leads the police in a county, especially in the United Kingdom
1
7.3
An important government official in charge of a department who coordinates other departments
A small animal like a rabbit that lives in rocky mountain areas in North America
- Specialized
A high-ranking sailor in the US Navy or Coast Guard who leads and trains other sailors
How Important
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chief comes from the old Latin word caput, meaning 'head', and the same root appears in words like capital and captain. So as an adjective, chief means the 'main' or most important thing.