Recent Examples on the WebZhang 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 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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