Word Finder - chief

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A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.

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All firefighters report to the fire chief.

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The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.

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The principal part or top of anything.

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An informal term of address, sometimes ironic.

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Hey, chief.

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To smoke cannabis.

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Primary; principal.

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Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.

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Intimate, friendly.

He was the chief ruler of that great city.

Jenn is the chief of my spies.

The chief tore out the lining and found the gold hidden beneath it.

Of course, we all know he's a doctor, but I have to say Indian Chief isn't too far off, either.

I wouldn't be a good spy chief if I killed my sources.

My chief says for us not to break our butts wasting any more time chasing him down.

But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life.

That is John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

The window rolled down, and his chief assassin glared at him.

Damian turned the cell phone back on and emerged into the warm evening air from the Marriott's conference room, the random place chosen by his spy chief for this week's intelligence briefing.

Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

A chief lord was chosen every year.

Then the chief cook began his song.

She could not keep back her tears, and the chief cause of her pain seemed to be the fear lest people should doubt her truthfulness.

But hunger has numerous and complicated causes and can only be eliminated by addressing the chief ones.

The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place?

That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his call to them to defend their country--the very incitement which was the chief cause of Russia's triumph in so far as it was produced by the Tsar's personal presence in Moscow--was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a pretext for quitting the army.

The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance.

Prince Peter Mikhaylovich Volkonski occupied the position, as it were, of chief of the Emperor's staff.

Berthier, his chief of staff, dropped behind to question a Russian prisoner captured by the cavalry.

But that's nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I was thinking of.

Before he had had time to finish giving these instructions, a chief of staff followed by a suite galloped up to him.

The chief magnates sat on high- backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room.

The chief events of the year 1893 were my trip to Washington during the inauguration of President Cleveland, and visits to Niagara and the World's Fair.

One of the visitors, usually spoken of as "a man of great merit," having described how he had that day seen Kutuzov, the newly chosen chief of the Petersburg militia, presiding over the enrollment of recruits at the Treasury, cautiously ventured to suggest that Kutuzov would be the man to satisfy all requirements.

I told them his election as chief of the militia would not please the Emperor.

That same day Kutuzov was appointed commander-in- chief with full powers over the armies and over the whole region occupied by them.

He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.

Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy's position--by cavalry scouting-- was not available.

His chief works were Latin versions of Plutarch,.

The uniformed guys downstairs had drawn lots to see who got stuck informing the next of kin, and since that time, speculation on the disappearance of Jeffrey Byrne had been the chief topic of conversation at the Parkside Police Department.

The clipped note in her chief advisor's voice reminded her of how little he approved of her recent decision to involve herself in war planning.

Its chief exports are of cotton, hemp, sugar and stone.

The same body draws up the list of males liable to the poll-tax and of the lands liable to land-tax, these being the chief sources of revenue.

Its fundamental principle is that, by a combination of glass scales with a micrometer screw, " the chief part of the distance to be measured is read off on the scale; the fractional part of the scalespace is not estimated but measured by the screw."

His rivals saw how his intense personal ambition and egoism led him always to assume the chief place, and to use his parliamentary position to establish himself as leader of the nation.

The members were called "justices," and in the king's absence the chief justiciar presided over the court.

A great variety of industries is carried on, the chief being the manufacture of semolina and other farinaceous foods, confectionery, preserved fruit and jams, chemicals and rubber goods.

Clermont is the chief market for the grain and other agricultural produce of Auvergne and Velay.

Clermont is identified with the ancient Augustonemetum, the chief town of the Arverni, and it still preserves some remains of the Roman period.

The capital of the state is Cuyaba., and the chief commercial town is Corumbá at the head of navigation for the larger river boats, and 1986 m.

At the same time a supreme court of judicature was appointed, composed of a chief and three puisne judges, to exercise an indeterminate jurisdiction at Calcutta.

Rice is the chief article of export, dried or salted fish, pepper and cotton ranking next in order of value.

The notables elect the provincial councillors in the proportion, usually, of one to every canton, and their delegates elect the chief of the canton, who voices the wishes of the natives to the government.

Two chief trains of thought have combined in the condemnation of primitive theory and practice.

The chief drawback to type A is that the errors of the screw are liable to change by wear, otherwise the apparatus, as made and used at Potsdam, is, on the whole, a convenient and accurate one.

Chimneys are unknown in the older houses; the hearth is in the centre of the chief room, and the smoke escapes through the roof.

Comparatively little grain is now produced, whereas under the republic Sardinia was one of the chief granaries of Rome.

Under Byzantium it remained nominally until the 10th century, when we find the chief magistrate still bearing the title of apXow.3 In the 8th century 4 (720) the period of Saracen invasion began; but the Saracens never secured a firm footing in the island.

Some of them were baptized; the territory which was afterwards known as the duchy of Normandy was ceded to them; but the story of the marriage of their chief Rollo with a sister of the king, related by the chronicler Dudo of Saint Quentin, is very doubtful.