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Another word for premier

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Adjective

  1. Most important, influential, or significant

      1. Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business:
      2. Most important or most serious; principal; chief
      3. First and foremost; principal:
      1. Bright-red, like the robe of a cardinal
      2. Of foremost importance; paramount:
      3. Of main importance; principal; chief
      1. Highest, as in rank or office; foremost
      2. Highest in rank, authority, or office:
      3. Most important or significant; main; principal
      1. Ranking before all others; foremost in rank, quality, importance, etc.; principal
      2. Corresponding in order to the number one.
      3. Ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost:
      1. More prominent or important than others, especially in position or rank:
      2. First in rank or importance; leading
      1. Of crucial importance; significant:
      2. Controlling; essential; important
      1. Having a position in the lead; foremost:
      2. Principal; chief
      3. Ranking first.
      1. Most important; principal.
      2. (Nautical) Connected to or located near the mainmast:
      3. Chief in size, extent, importance, etc.; principal; leading; specif., designating a large central unit on which subsidiaries or branches depend
      1. Characterized by major intervals, scales, etc.
      2. Designating a triad having intervals of a major third between the lower two pitches, and a minor third between the upper two pitches
      3. Equivalent to the distance between the tonic note and the second or third or sixth or seventh degrees of a major scale or mode:
      1. First in rank, order, or importance:
      1. Highest in rank, power, or authority:
      2. Of chief concern or importance:
      1. (Ornithology) Designating or of the large, stiff feathers on the last section, or hand, of a bird's wing
      2. Relating to the replacement of only one of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which one valence of the functional group is taken by a carbon atom.
      3. First in importance; chief; principal; main
      1. Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
      2. From which others are derived; fundamental; basic
      3. First or highest in rank or importance; main:
      1. Highest or among the highest in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc.
      2. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
      3. First or highest in rank or importance.
      1. Of, situated at, or being the top; uppermost, highest, greatest, or foremost
      2. Of the highest degree, quality, rank, or amount:
      3. Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
    See also:

    important

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Sentence Examples

  • Now at last, after waiting so long, Signor Sonninos hour had struck, and he became premier for the first time.

  • C. Norton brought against the Whig premier for criminal conversation with his wife.

  • Meanwhile the marquis de Rudini, who had succeeded Crispi as Italian premier, had authorized the abandonment of article 17 even before he had heard of the failure of Antonellis negotiations.

  • Kabardians 1 Premier Recensement general de la population de l'empire de Russie, ed.

  • Instead of presenting the Go vern- usual programme, the new premier read to the arliament.

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