A person presiding over a meeting; a chair, presiding officer, presider.
Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
The head of state of a republic.
To act as president; to do presidential duties.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.