Chief of Staff

noun

the senior officer of the U.S. Army or Air Force, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responsible to the secretary of a service branch.
(lowercase)��the senior or principal staff officer in a brigade or division or higher unit in the U.S. Army or Marine Corps, in a numbered unit in the U.S. Air Force, or in a unit in the U.S. Navy commanded by a rear admiral or one of higher rank.
(lowercase)��the senior officer in command of a general staff, especially that of the military forces of a nation.
(lowercase)��the head of any staff.
the chief of staff for the First Lady.

Chief of Staff

noun

the senior staff officer under the commander of a major military formation or organization
the senior officer of each service of the armed forces

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chief of Staff¹

First recorded in 1880–85

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In the last year, he's said hiring Sue Gray - Starmer's former chief of staff who left Downing Street in October - was wrong.

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A man who served in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet and then had him thrown out of the party; who stood to be leader on promises to keep much of Corbyn's agenda before tearing up those promises to win power; and someone who hired then fired Sue Gray as his first Downing Street chief of staff.

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But the Wild King Nights - as the rapper's chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, referred to them - revealed an even darker side to working for Combs.

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Jonathan Perez, another employee, testified that he procured Xanax, cocaine and molly for the rapper, as ordered by Combs' chief of staff.

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In May, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller reportedly directed top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to go beyond target lists and have agents make arrests at Home Depots or 7-Eleven convenience stores as they sought to crank up their daily arrest numbers to 3,000.

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Chief of Naval Operations chief of state

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