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  1. chefnoun

    The head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant, club, or wealthy family.

    Synonyms:
    cook

Princeton's WordNet

  1. chefnoun

    a professional cook

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  1. List of paraphrases for "chef":

    chief, head, leader, cook, boss

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#692head
#1793chief
#2047leader
#3139cook
#4699boss
#6304chef

How to use chef in a sentence?

  1. Jeremy Arney:

    Plus, notes the chef, they’re not serving food so it’s not the same business model. Jeremy Arney, an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin LaCrosse and alcohol police expert seems to agree. This is yet another example of two competing value systems.

  2. Alan Perez:

    He said he and his client asked Cheah for their money back but wound up losing their entireinvestment. The Post quoted another pre-sentencing letter from Houston chef Alan Perez, who said Cheah left him $ 250,000 in debt. She does not use guns, knives, or any other sort of physical weapon like many criminals, language and emotion are her weapons, and armed with them she can easily infiltrate the mind of anyone she wishes to prey upon.

  3. Al Roker:

    We lost legendary fashion model, chef, restaurateur, lifestyle icon and magazine publisher, Barbara Elaine Smith today.

  4. Lori Rosenthal:

    When dining out, we are leaving the ingredients to the chef or fast food chain, when we make our own, we are in control.

  5. Father Paredes:

    Every Sunday, we had 'asadito' -- a lot of meat and Pope Francis was the chef. It was something simple; but, still it was a lot of work for one person cooking for others.


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