chief of staff

1. 1.

   the senior officer of a service of the armed forces

   Broadermilitary officer

   military

Questions about chief of staff

What does chief of staff mean?

chief of staff means "the senior officer of a service of the armed forces".

Is chief of staff a common word?

chief of staff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.