Chief
Chief noun - The main or greater part of something as distinguished from its subordinate parts.
Nearby Word: chiefly
Retainer
Retainer noun - A person hired to perform household or personal services.
Usage example: knights being dressed for battle by their retainers
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Old Retainer with Parental Substitute - Impa, Zelda's chief of staff, has helped raised Zelda since she was born, and still provides motherly advice along with political ones for her princess.
Source: Fanfic / Exoria -
Later (which is about a few weeks after Higashi took the position as Chief Retainer after Saburo left) he returned, and three weeks later the substitute was anticlimactically unmasked.
Source: Series / Takeshi's Castle
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