Recent Examples on the WebVance was treating Munich as another fairground for his audition to be Trump’s vice president, or at the very least as the Republican Party’s foreign-policy chieftain.—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024 Zhang joins a raft of corporate chieftains who’ve relocated to the island state after years of regulatory tightening and Covid restrictions hammered China’s once free-wheeling tech sector.—Zheping Huang, Fortune Asia, 8 May 2024 Billionaires, including the fund manager William A. Ackman and Marc Rowan, a private-equity chieftain, mounted campaigns to remove the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania over their handling of antisemitism on their campuses.—Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 3 May 2024 Rory Alexander will play a younger version of Duncan LaCroix's Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, Jamie's beloved cousin, while Sam Retford will portray headstrong future war chieftain Dougal MacKenzie (a role originated by Graham McTavish, who now appears on Men In Kilts with star Sam Heughan).—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chieftain
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English chieftaine, from Anglo-French chevetain, from Late Latin capitaneus chief — more at captain
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