Chief
51chief — /tʃi:f/ adjective most important ● He is the chief accountant of an industrial group. ● She is the chief buyer for a department store …
52chief — n. the person in charge. (Also a term of address.) □ Okay, chief, where to? □ You got a couple of clams to pay the toll with, chief? …
53chief — [13] Etymologically, the chief is the ‘head’. The word comes via Old French chef or chief and Vulgar Latin *capum from Latin caput ‘head’. The adjectival use is equally as old as the noun use in English. Other English offshoots of *capum are cape …
54chief — Ordinary Or di*na*ry, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} ( r[i^]z). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an… …
55Chief — Her. One of the nine *honourable ordinaries, being a band across the top of a shield or flag; also, the topmost part of a shield, often one fifth but no more than one third; used as in *dexter chief to indicate the top right. [< OldFr. chef… …
56chief — n A big shot. He thinks he s the chief but he s just another nobody. 1950s …
57chief — A generic but slick nickname to call anyone. Would you like fries with that? Yes, thanks chief …
58chief — A generic but slick nickname to call anyone. Would you like fries with that? Yes, thanks chief …
59chief — I. , sb. == chieftain. 1003 B. II. , adj. == ‘to hold in chief,’ a law term, applied to those tenants who held their fiefs direct from the king; ‘tenants in capite.’ RG. 472 == principal. St Swithin, 22 …
60chief n — mischief n, editor in chief n …
