Chiefly

Definition

chief /tʃi:f/ n ၁။ (မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စု) ေခါင္းေဆာင္။ အႀကီးအကဲ။ Chief Buthelezi. ၂။ ဌာနအႀကီးအကဲ။ a chief of police ❍ army chiefs. adj ၁။ အဓိက။ အေရးပါေသာ။ the chief rivers of India ❍ The chief thing to remember is … ❍ Smoking is one of the chief causes of lung cancer. ၂။ ဩဇာအာဏာအရိွဆံုး။ အခ်ဳပ္။ the chief priest. ❏ Chief Constable n ( Brit ) ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ အႀကီး အကဲ။ ❏ chiefly adv (က) အဓိက။ အေရးအပါဆံုး။ The government is chiefly concerned with controlling inflation. (ခ) အမ်ားစု။ Air consists chiefly of nitrogen. ❏ Chief of Staff n ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္။ ❏ -in-chief (forming compound ns ) …ခ်ဳပ္။ editor-in-chief စာတည္းမႉးခ်ဳပ္။ ❍ commander-in-chief. ❏ (there are) too many chiefs and not enough Indians [ IDM ] ( infml saying ) အိမ္ေျခတစ္ရာ ျပည္စိုးအစိတ္ (ျဖစ္ေနသည္)။

Examples

1. Unemployment was the chief cause of poverty during the 1930s.
2. Dana had always considered her looks her chief asset.
3. The majority of the market has gone to their chief rival
4. Renault.
5. Keith joined the company as chief industrial engineer.
6. The government’s Chief Medical Officer