premier

IPA: prɛmˈɪr

(politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
(politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
(politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
(Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

Examples of "premier" in Sentences

The premier is traveling with chinese business leaders and eight members of his Cabinet.
Sadly it looks like a second term in office for the former Portuguese premier is now inevitable.
Phillips wouldn't admit it, but he's already throwing punches to keep what he called the premier job in the NFL.
The date of the premier is my birthday and I can think of no better way to spend the evening than seeing this movie!
I was the first one to do it, the first white man to run under 10 seconds," he says, the phrase "premier blanc" – the first white – rolling easily off his tongue."
The reason why that Canadian provincial premier is in the states for the operation is because as a much larger country, we have many more surgeons, and have developed more sophisticated surgical methods than his own county with a population barely equal to that of New York State.
The new program will offer four tiers to what it calls "premier," or elite, participants - 1K (for travelers with 100,000 qualifying miles), platinum (75,000 miles), gold (50,000 miles) and silver (25,000 miles) - rather than the three elite tiers the two airlines' programs had before.