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chief

/cheef/US // tʃif //UK // (tʃiːf) //

酋长,首席,首长,主任

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
    • : the head or ruler of a tribe or clan: an Indian chief.
    • : U.S. Army. a title of some advisers to the Chief of Staff, who do not, in most instances, command the troop units of their arms or services: Chief of Engineers; Chief Signal Officer.
    • : Informal. boss or leader: We'll have to talk to the chief about this.
    • : Heraldry. the upper area of an escutcheon.an ordinary occupying this area.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : highest in rank or authority: the chief priest; the chief administrator.
    • : most important; principal: his chief merit; the chief difficulty.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. chiefly; principally.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.most important, essential
Synonyms
leading领导,领先,领先的,领导层main主要,主,主要的,主体preeminent出类拔萃,出类拔萃的,杰出的,突出的prime首要的,首要,首选,首要任务principal主要的,主要内容,主要负责人,主要arch拱门,拱形,拱桥,拱形的capital资本,首府cardinal红衣主教,红衣大主教,红衣主教的,红雀central中央,中心,中央的,中心的champion冠军,冠军得主,锦标赛,冠军的first首先,第一次,第一,先grand盛大,隆重,盛大的,壮观head头,头部,头颅,头头key钥匙,关键,密钥,关键的major主要,主要的,重大,主要内容premier总理,首长,首选,首要的primary初级,初级的,主要的,首要的ruling执政的,执政,统治的,统治star明星superior优异的,优异,优等生,优越的telling告诉你,告诉大家,告知,告诉他们consequential相应的,相应地,相应,相互影响的controlling控制,控制性,控制的,控制权crucial关键,重要的,重要,关键的effective有效,有效的,高效,高效的especial特别是,特别,特有的,特有foremost最重要的是,首要的,最重要的,首要的是highest最高,最高的,最高层,最高级momentous巨大的,轰轰烈烈的,轰轰烈烈,重要的number one第一,第一位,第一名,第一批outstanding优秀,突出的,突出,优秀的paramount至高无上,最重要的,至高无上的,最重要的是potent强效,强力,强力的,强效的predominant占主导地位的,占主导地位,占优势的,占优势primal原始的,原始,最原始的,原始人significant显著的,显著,重要的,有意义的stellar恒星,恒星的,恒定的,恒星级supreme至高无上,至尊,至上,至高无上的uppermost最上层,最上面的,最上层的,最上方vital重要的,重要,重要的是,重要性weighty沉重的,有分量的,重量级的,重量级
nounperson in charge

Examples

  • BlackRock chief investment officer of global fixed income Rick Rieder asks rhetorically in a note.

  • Over the past three months, the shop has seen three to four times the number of sales month over month, according to Rob DeChiaro, chief digital officer of Golf.

  • If all that weren’t enough, Dalio lost an arbitration fight with ex-staffers, is feuding with his former co-chief executive and has axed dozens of employees.

  • The former president and CEO of Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank by market cap, says no chief executive “should sit in their chair for dozens of years.”

  • That’s now halved to four, said chief revenue officer Josh Stinchcomb.

  • “Having been a legislator and a mayor, I particularly enjoy being a chief executive,” he said.

  • This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.

  • “You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

  • Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • She is skilful in seizing salient characteristics, and her chief aim is to preserve the individuality of her sitters and models.

  • M'Bongo, the great chief of this neighbourhood, paid a ceremonial visit to my husband.

  • But,” said the prime minister of Flatland, starting a difficulty, “who is to be greatest chief?

  • But it was not only as an organiser and transmitter of orders that Berthier proved his usefulness to his chief.

  • By the end of the campaign of 1796 he had proved that he was as great a chief of the staff as Bonaparte was a great commander.