A chief who leads a group in wartime, a warlord, a war leader.

(UK, historical) The presiding judge of the English Exchequer of Pleas.

(anthropology) The chief or headman of a band society.

plural of war chief

Alternative form of case-in-chief

(Canada, military, Royal Canadian Navy) A chief petty officer, the highest ranked warrant officer on a military base.

A tribal chief who sits on the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

(US) the principal, presiding, or most senior judge of especially a lower level court or of a circuit

plural of arch-chief

Alternative form of archchief