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(n)
(informal) Boss, leader.
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A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
(management) The leader of a work crew.
(idiomatic) The boss, the leader (of the pack).
(adj)
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
First or earliest in a group or series.
The highest or uppermost part of something.
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
of great significance or value
The position of a head or chief.
(law) Having authority over; vested with the authority to preside over.
A leader of a clan or tribe.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
A leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group.
A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
The head of state of a republic.
A boss in a business, company, or other organization.
A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
The office or department of a government secretary.
Pertaining to a secretary.
(chiefly UK, Ireland) A male headteacher.
Approved by authority; authorized.
(politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
Alternative spelling of commander in chief. [Supreme commander of the armed forces of an entire country.]
Alternative spelling of Secretary General. [The chief administrator of an international body such as NATO or the United Nations.]
An official keeper or recorder of records.
(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
Someone who has control over something or someone.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
Of or relating to administering or administration.
(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
The capacity of someone to lead others.
An administrative division of an area.
An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
At an important, elevated, or exalted level in a hierarchy or organization; high-level.
A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
The chief accountant of a company or government.
(v)
(intransitive, seduction community) To go out and engage women in order to pick them up.
Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.
The head of a department in France.
(music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
(military) A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
Providing guidance or direction.
Guidance.
(sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
(transitive) To make higher; to raise or increase in amount or quantity.
One who, or that which, coordinates.
One who negotiates.
The amount of money levied for a service.
A person employed to inspect something.
A chief administrative officer of a prison.
Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
One who controls something.
Any person who leads or directs.
The national intelligence agency of Israel.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
(government) A politician who heads a ministry
Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
A beginning; a first move.
Model, example.
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
A cathedral church without any monastic connection.
(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
(military) A UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
(US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
An honorific for the editor-in-chief of a publication.
First in importance, degree, or rank.
(UK, Ireland, chiefly London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
(politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
Having a noticeable or major effect.
Common or widespread; prevalent.
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
(in combination) Heading in a certain direction.
Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
At a higher level, rank or position.
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
(military) The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines.
(adv)
Generally; with everything considered.
One who speaks.