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chief

A leader or respected elder in a tribe. They came to the chief to resolve their dispute. The head of an organization. All firefighters report to the fire chief.

chief

The chief thing is the primary or principal thing. The chief cause of his death was cancer.

chief

(= main, primary, principal, master) most important element the chief aim of living the main doors were of solid glass the principal rivers of America the principal example policemen were primary targets the master bedroom a master switch (= head) a person who is in charge the head of the whole operation (= foreman) a person who exercises control over workers if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman (= headman) the head of a tribe or clan

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Simple sentences

The elephants are the chief attraction at the circus.
The problem tortured the chief.
The Diet is the chief organ of government in Japan.
The section chief accepted the proposal.
He is the chief of my department.
He has been the chief of his tribe for 35 years.
He attempted to sidestep a conflict with his chief.
Critique of Pure Reason is German philosopher Immanuel Kant's chief literary work.
Tom is having lunch with the police chief.
Tom is the chief.
Tom is the chief executive officer.
America's chief immunologist since 1984, Fauci has served under five presidents.
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
The section chief made me work like a slave.
The chief crop of our country is rice.
What were the chief events of 1990?
What were the chief events of last year?
I got acquainted with the chief executive.
The followings are the chief events of 1993.
The section chief seems to like abusing his authority.
He was promoted to section chief.
He is the chief of a police station.

Movie subtitles

Lets make you into a Chief.
Thus. Starting from today, to Dolsoe right here, I appoint him as chief.
Chief?
That thing as chief?
Since he doesn't have a last name, do we have to call him Chief Dol?
Call me Chief.
It's sad because I don't have a last name but.call me Chief Dol.
But what is Chief Dol?
Chief Dol!
Chief Petty Officer Snick, thank you very much.
Yeah, curator, wrangler, the photographer, chief bottle washer, general dogs' body.
And it's Chief Constable Davis again.
Chief Constable Davis will be leading the manhunt for your. Detective Murdoch.
Chief Constable Davis.
My chief of staff, who's retired, is now the mayor of Toulon.
I'll go see the chief physician at the Mustafa Hospital.
No question asked. H. GRAFTON - Chief of Police.
General Thatcher, and his chief spy, Captain Anderson.
To strengthen ties with the population the chief of occupation and his wife with the staff are going to visit a big monastery.
The chief ordered to quickly collect two hundred heads of cattle from the nearest settlements.
There's the chief riding out to meet him now for a powwow.
Attached to a chief of staff of our own army.
Okay, chief.
Hello, chief.
Big Chief Bingy come to white man's tepee to make friends.
Big Chief very sorry.
Show how sorry, will bend over and let white man kick Big Chief where sun never shine.
The chief of the spy bureau.
Is it all right if I bring my tea, chief?
Who are those who knew about that place? Our family, the Chief Secretary, Eun Si Gyeong, the safety inspection team and only a few guards.
That Chief Secretary. he can be trusted, right?
But. Chief Secretary, for the contributions, you can see what to do about it, and as for going for a walk at Namsan's pine wood trail, you also know.
Happy birthday, Section Chief.
Try carrying it, Section Chief.
We only told the section chief of the bodyguards.
I'm the Chief Prosecutor at the ICC.
This is a discretion of the Chief of Justice.
I deal with many countries as Chief Prosecutor, is there any reason for me to talk to the North Korean dedication for more than 2 minutes?
When we do get married, Chief Kang should MC our wedding.

News and current affairs

In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti-Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues' degradation: warriors had turned into traders, he complained.
Only after the vote did the Chief of Staff publicly endorse the original proposal to bring in American troops.
In 25 years, according to Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, China's emissions could be double those of the US, Europe, and Japan combined.
Enver Ziganshin, the chief engineer of BP Russia, was shot to death in Irkutsk on September 30.
The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government's authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.
Yet the next national elections, due before May 2009, may produce a plausible Dalit contender for the job of prime minister - Kumari Mayawati, the female chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh.
A variety of studies confirming this proposition, including one by the IMF's chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, have withstood considerable scrutiny and leave little room for ambiguity.
If the Chief Justice and the judges are reinstated, we can move toward a genuine democratic system.
They are suffering huge financial losses by boycotting the courts, and yet they are determined that the Chief Justice must be reinstated.
The larger-bank principle has two chief attractions.
Born on a kibbutz, he served most of his life in the Israeli army, became its Chief-of-Staff and also its most decorated soldier.
The salaries of Italy's military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.
The government succumbed and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled province under the care of the provincial governor.
Moreover, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzu Abe, the front-runner to succeed him, has openly declared that he will continue to visit the shrine as prime minister.
But that, of course, is the chief purpose of a monetary union.
Rebekah Brooks, the editor of The News of the World at the beginning of the phone-hacking scandal, and subsequently the chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British subsidiary, played precisely such a role.
Nor has Thatcherite policy succeeded in one of its chief aims - to reduce the share of government spending in national income.
Issing, the ECB's chief economist in its formative years, knows more about how a monetary union operates in practice than any man alive.
While the ICC's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, expresses confidence that Bashir will be brought to justice, it is unclear how this will happen.
And when a technology-led change is inevitable, integrating it into an open society should be one of journalism's chief tasks.
She recently met with former Japanese finance minister Fukushiro Nukaga, and Kim Kwan-jin, the chief of South Korea's National Security Office, recently met with Abe's national security adviser, Shotaro Yachi.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA's chief, Joseph Kony.
Chief among these changes has been the adoption, in most countries, of flexible exchange rates and reduction of external debt, particularly government debt.

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