What is the difference between chief and leader?
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(senseid)A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
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(heraldiccharge) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
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(senseid)A head officer in a department, organization etc.; a boss.
An informal address to an equal.
Primary; principal.
Any person that s or directs.
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# One who goes first.
# One having authority to direct.
# One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
# A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
# (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
# (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
An animal that leads.
# The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
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# An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
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Something that leads or conducts.
# (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
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# A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
# (UK) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
# (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
# A piece of material at the beginning or end of a to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
# (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
# (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
# (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
# (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
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# (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
# (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
# (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
Leader is a synonym of chief.
As nouns the difference between chief and leader
is that chief is (leader of group etc)A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc while leader is any person that leads or directs.As an adjective chief
is primary; principal.chief
English
(wikipedia chief)Noun
(en noun)- My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.
- When the Chief' is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "''On a '''Chief ".
- All firefighters report to the fire chief .
- Hey, chief.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
(chief) * chief constable * chiefess * chief executive * chief executive officer/CEO * chief legal officer * chief mate * chief of staff * chief of state * chief petty officer * commander in chief * dexter chief * editor in chief * fire chief * in chief * police chief * war chiefAdjective
(-)- Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
See also
* chefStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----leader
English
Noun
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- Follow the leader .
- We elected her team leader .
- The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.