Usually means: Primary position in heraldic design.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. in chief: Merriam-Webster
  2. in chief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. in chief: Collins English Dictionary
  4. in-chief: Vocabulary.com
  5. in-chief, in-Chief: Wordnik
  6. in chief: Wiktionary
  7. In chief, in-chief, in chief: Dictionary.com
  8. in-chief, in chief: FreeDictionary.org
  9. in-chief: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. In chief, in-chief: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. in chief: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (in chief)

adjective:  (after a noun) Executive, the highest in command.
adjective:  (after a noun, humorous) The chief example; the worst offender.
adjective:  (heraldry) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, chief. In the chief of the escutcheon.

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