English-Swedish translations for chief

• chef en
  Vår chefsförhandlare sitter bakom mig.Our chief negotiator sits behind me.
  Ingen får stå i vägen för OLAF:s chef Franz-Hermann Brüner.No one can stand in OLAF chief Heinz-Hermann Brüner’s way.
  Vi har Nato, där chefen är amerikansk.We have ΝΑΤΟ with an American commander-in-chief.
• ginstam en
• hövding en
• ledare en
  Vi har alltså två ledare inom EU som säger emot varandra.So we have two big chiefs within the European Union directly contradicting each other.
  Militärjuntans ledare general Than Shwe satt emellertid kvar vid makten tillsammans med sin ställföreträdare Maung Aye.However, the Junta chief, General Than Shwe, remained, along with his deputy, Maung Aye.
  Om Khin Nyunt befordras till ledare för Burmas vindsurfinglag för att besöka min egen valkrets i Weymouth 2012 bör han inte få något visum.If Khin Nyunt is transferred to chief administrator of the Burmese windsurfing squad to visit my own constituency in Weymouth in 2012, he should not be given a visa.

Definition of chief

• A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
• 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
• Primary; principal
• Intimate, friendly
• To smoke cannabis

Examples

• All firefighters report to the fire chief.
• Hey, chief.
• Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster

Related words

• handkerchief
• chiefly
• chieftain
• editor-in-chief
• kerchief
• neckerchief
• pocket-handkerchief
• commander-in-chief
• mischief-maker