Joint Chiefs
133
4.1
- proper noun
- US
:
Junta de Jefes del Estado Mayor
- The president met with the Joint Chiefs to discuss the country's defense strategy.
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- U.S. Joint Chiefs
- Joint Chiefs chairman
And the Joint Chiefs wanted nothing to do with that.
- And the Joint Chiefs wanted nothing to do with that.
- That way the Joint Chiefs will actually hear it.
- He said the anti war groups are state, CIA and Joint Chiefs.
- And she used to be the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
- That's how it works there in the E ring, which is where the Joint Chiefs are.
- But but there was no doubt in in the minds of a lot of people who knew at NSA and in the Joint Chiefs that they were going to do this.
- And the Joint Chiefs of Staff finalized their plans for an all out invasion of Cuba.
- General Miley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying before Congress last year, talks about white rage again.
- This is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Miley, saying to the Senate and Congress that he wants to look into white rage.
- We're talking like maybe chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but if not people on the Joint Chiefs.
- And the reason why is because we we had got permission from from the Joint Chiefs Office to do that.
- We have the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who just retired, John Heighten, you know, said that yes, we've protected our.
Examples
-
General Miley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifying before Congress last year, talks about white rage again.
-
I got called into a meeting with the Joint Chiefs, and I was a little nervous.
-
And the Joint Chiefs wanted nothing to do with that.
-
That way the Joint Chiefs will actually hear it.
-
I have to talk to the Joint Chiefs of Staff!
-
You talked to the Joint Chiefs, what do they recommend?
-
The President and his chief advisors are there along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Joint Chiefs are ready, Mr. Undersecretary.
-
Presidential news secretary John Fenner refused comment on a report that an emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in session.
-
And the Joint Chiefs of Staff finalized their plans for an all out invasion of Cuba.
Synonyms
58
4.2
A group of top military leaders who advise the President of the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'joint' (together/involving multiple parties) and 'chiefs' (leaders), so a learner who knows the words would infer a group of leaders acting together. However, its specific institutional meaning — the formal body of senior military leaders who advise the President — is a named, domain-specific referent that cannot be fully derived from the constituents alone, so prior exposure or contextual knowledge is needed.
Etymology
Joint Chiefs comes from the idea of the top military leaders meeting together: joint means 'together' and chiefs means 'leaders'. That's why it now refers to the group of senior military officers who advise the President.