Capital and Chief

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Capital

Capital adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: the capital goal of the effort is to assimilate the new immigrants

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Chief is a synonym for capital in principal topic. In some cases you can use "Chief" instead an adjective "Capital", when it comes to topics like main, first, position, important. popular alternative

Nearby Words: capitally, capitalize, capitalist, capitalise, capitalization

Chief

Chief adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

Usage example: our chief priority this year will be cutting the budget

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Capital is a synonym for chief in first topic. You can use "Capital" instead an adjective "Chief", if it concerns topics such as important, essential, primary. popular alternative

Nearby Word: chiefly

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old	old capital	old chief
current	current capital	current chief
original	original capital	original chief
actual	actual capital	actual chief
Other adjectives: real, little, new, former, temporary, last, local, terrorist, belgian.

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