Chief
Chief adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: our chief priority this year will be cutting the budget
Premier is a synonym for chief in head topic. In some cases you can use "Premier" instead the word "Chief" as an adjective or a noun, when it comes to topics like important, essential, primary.
Nearby Word: chiefly
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Attempts to get the game postponed were unsuccessful, leading some to sourly speculate that the friendship between the Premier League chief and Arsenal chairman David Dein may have had something to do with it.
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Premier and Chief. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chief/premier
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