English–Dutch dictionary
Dutch translation of the English word chief
| English | Dutch (translated indirectly) | Esperanto |
|---|---|---|
| (boss; leader; governor; head; master; prefect) | ; ; ; ; | |
🔗 For their part, EU chiefs are showing signs of maximum exasperation with May and her administration. | ||
| (superior) | ||
| (main; major; principal; dominant; key; peak; prime; senior; staple; premier) | hoofd‐ ; voornaamste | |
🔗 The chief difficulty for the solitary student is, how to acquire fluency. | ||
| (boss; leader; headman; head; kingpin) | ; ; | |
🔗 Take us to your chief. | ||
| (dominant; overwhelming; ultimate) | ||
| (chieftain) | ||
| (main; predominant; principal) | hoofd‐ ; voornaamste | |
stafchef ; | ||
🔗 His White House inner circle is dwindling, after the ouster of former chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer, creatures of the Washington DC Republican establishment. | ||
| (chief of police) | ; ; | |
🔗 The suspect in the Norway bow‐and‐arrow attack had converted to Islam and police were in contact with him before the killings on Wednesday over concerns about radicalization, police chief Ole Bredrup Sæverud said Thursday. | ||
| (principally; mainly; above all; notably) | ; ; | |
🔗 Divided into three parts, it has been written to meet the needs of both those who are chiefly interested in learning to translate English into Latin and those who want to be able to read Latin as soon as possible. | ||
chiefly (mostly; mainly; predominantly; largely; for the better part; for the greater part; for the most part) | ; ; ; ; | |
commander‐in‐chief (supreme commander) | ||
| English | Dutch |
|---|---|
| chief | ⇆ eerste; ⇆ hoofd‐; ⇆ hoofd; ⇆ hoofdman; ⇆ leider; ⇆ opperhoofd; ⇆ opperste; ⇆ voornaamste |
| chief clerk | ⇆ chef; ⇆ chef de bureau |
| chief constable | ⇆ commissaris; ⇆ commissaris van politie |
| chief engineer | ⇆ eerste machinist |
| chief guard | ⇆ hoofdconducteur |
| chief justice | ⇆ opperrechter |
| chief officer | ⇆ eerste officier |
| chief of staff | ⇆ chef‐staf; ⇆ stafchef |
| chief pilot | ⇆ gezagvoerder |
| chief rabbi | ⇆ opperrabbijn |
| chief rabbin | ⇆ opperrabbijn |
| chief rôle | ⇆ hoofdrol |
| in chief | ⇆ opper‐ |
| police chief | ⇆ commissaris; ⇆ politiechef; ⇆ politiecommissaris |
| tribal chief | ⇆ stamhoofd |
| chiefly | ⇆ hoofdzakelijk; ⇆ vooral; ⇆ voornamelijk |
| chieftown | ⇆ hoofdstad |
| commander‐in‐chief | ⇆ legercommandant; ⇆ opperbevelhebber |
| robber‐chief | ⇆ roverhoofdman; ⇆ rovershoofdman |