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Meanings of gaffer in English
Synonyms
Examples for "chief"
Examples for "chief"
1
Water New Zealand chief executive Gillian Blythe said regulation was sorely needed.
2
Business would also suffer, Business New Zealand chief executive Kirk Hope said.
3
Superb police work, chief: When you friend suggest you break the law.
4
The deputy chief said authorities now believe those were the only victims.
5
The fire lasted just three minutes, the fire department chief said today.
1
After 15 days' absence from work, his boss fired him, he said.
2
I was available, and the boss knows my work, knows I'm good.
3
Christchurch Council boss forced to take leave over the building consent crisis.
4
My boss specifically wants local law enforcement involved only in the search.
5
The former Chelsea boss played down the depth of his so-called crisis.
1
There was a dead silence; and the foreman gave in the verdict:
2
The principal men of the establishment were the proprietor and the foreman.
3
The cry of the foreman reached the ears of the clinging women.
4
Well, the foreman made me aware of a... uh... a small problem.
5
I am assistant foreman, soon I'll know enough to get other jobs.
1
Did the Inferno Hotel honcho somehow read or guess my rebellious wish?
2
Head honcho Katsuaki Watanabe says they're simply too expensive to be viable.
3
This foreword brings us to Jacob Zuma himself -the head honcho.
4
Forbes pokes the Twitter and Square head honcho for his secret sauce.
5
We can consider Julius one man certainly unimpressed with the new ANC head-honcho.
Russian
оператор по свету Spanish
iluminista Head electrician for film and TV crews.
Related terms
Usage of gaffer in English
1
They were securely held down with gaffer tape and plastic safety bridges.
2
I got hold of some gaffer's tape and thrashed for the surface.
3
Under the gaffer we have controlled matches more than we've been controlled.
4
Methinks, gaffer ass, you might as well have said Sir Grandpaw Steed.
5
To him Randall went at once, saying, So, gaffer, how goes it?
6
Into the middle of this talk came Sam, bursting in with his gaffer.
7
Team News:Feeding the media is a necessary evil when donning the gaffer's cap.
8
Christian Epps: A gaffer is in charge of executing the lighting.
9
This gaffer contrived to 'bilk' all the turnpikes in the kingdom.
10
The gaffer has picked up on it and it seems to be working.
11
The scene looked surreal, like a movie set lit by an overzealous gaffer.
12
To me, gaffer tape is the best piece of design in the world.
13
A stonemason and the bricklayer's gaffer are swiping at each other with battens.
14
The last person they passed was a sturdy old gaffer clipping a hedge.
15
So you just stick gaffer tape over their eye, don't you?
16
The gaffer has given me that opportunity to step in and make that impact.
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Portuguese
Gaffer through the time
Gaffer across language varieties
United Kingdom
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