jefe
Americannoun
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jefes
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jefe
Spanish, from French chef chief
Example Sentences
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Many of my peers learned English from Scully — as my jefe Hector once wrote, there was no better teacher outside of Warner Bros. cartoons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
When Lydia’s journalist husband publishes an exposé of el jefe, she and her son are forced to head north on La Bestia, the train that takes migrants toward the United States.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2019
By April 18, the sometime ship mechanic Manuel Hedilla, acting head of the party, was elected its new jefe nacional by a narrow vote.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2017
Some of this evidence has cast an unflattering light on Donziger's tenure as el jefe of the war against Chevron.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 10, 2011
Every four years, they have a contest, and whoever wins gets to be the jefe.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
I lash out at people for free instead of channeling my ire into my columnas, which understandably annoys my jefes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
A few hours after the livestream ended, the channel was banned before being unbanned less than a day later. ¿y ahora cómo le explico esto a mis jefes?
From The Verge ● Dec. 22, 2021
“A lot of it boils down to keeping the jefes happy,” Garriola said.
From Washington Post
Later, he had changed it himself, for he had found the name of Fernandez hated by prefects of police, jefes politicos, and rurales.
From The Night-Born by Jack London
He did everything in his power for our comfort and assistance, and supplied us with letters to the jefes politicos of the districts through which we were to pass.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
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