chief
/t͡ʃiːf/ sustantivo B2En español: jefe, cacique, curaca
- The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group. · All firefighters report to the fire chief.
- Headship, the status of being a chief or leader. · Bob is our troubleshooter in chief.
- 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.
- The principal part or top of anything.
- An informal term of address.
- An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man.
Plural chiefs
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Albert, then, had fallen into the hands of the famous bandit chief, in whose existence he had for so long a time refused to believe.
Now we might suppose that this murdered man—this Douglas whose approaching fate was known by one of the arch-criminal’s subordinates—had in some way betrayed the chief.
His chief of staff is Colonel Sebastian Moran, as aloof and guarded and inaccessible to the law as himself.
At three in the morning the chief Sussex detective, obeying the urgent call from Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, arrived from headquarters in a light dog-cart behind a breathless trotter.
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