in-chief

1. 1.

   indicating the head of a staff

   “editor-in-chief”

   Similarimportant

   combining form

Questions about in-chief

What does in-chief mean?

in-chief means "indicating the head of a staff".

How many syllables are in in-chief?

in-chief has 2 syllables: in--chief. The stress falls on "in-".

Is in-chief a common word?

in-chief 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.