Recent Examples on the WebZhang joins a raft of corporate chieftains who’ve relocated to the island state after years of regulatory tightening and Covid restrictions hammered China’s once free-wheeling tech sector.—Zheping Huang, Fortune Asia, 8 May 2024 Billionaires, including the fund manager William A. Ackman and Marc Rowan, a private-equity chieftain, mounted campaigns to remove the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania over their handling of antisemitism on their campuses.—Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 3 May 2024 Rory Alexander will play a younger version of Duncan LaCroix's Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, Jamie's beloved cousin, while Sam Retford will portray headstrong future war chieftain Dougal MacKenzie (a role originated by Graham McTavish, who now appears on Men In Kilts with star Sam Heughan).—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024 The elite figure, identified as a chieftain, was buried with gold artifacts and 25 other people.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024 Corporate chieftains, policymakers, NGO warriors, journalists and intellectuals are heading to the Swiss Alps for the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024 Many white genealogy buffs can trace their family trees all the way back to Huguenot rebels or Scottish chieftains.—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 Levine relocated to the West Coast in 1979 at the request of Universal chieftain Lew Wasserman and Herb Steinberg.—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024 Army chieftains claim to have degraded Hamas militarily, but its command structure is believed to be largely intact, and its leader, Yahya Sinwar, is still apparently alive and well in Gaza.—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English chieftaine, from Anglo-French chevetain, from Late Latin capitaneus chief — more at captain
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