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editors-in-chief

editors-in-chief is the plural of editor-in-chief.

Meaning of editor-in-chief

Noun

editor-in-chief (plural editors-in-chief)

  1. The highest-ranking editor on an editorial staff.
    • “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost

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Noun capitalized: Editors-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

  1. (plural) plural of Editor-in-Chief

Questions about editors-in-chief

What is editors-in-chief the plural of?
Editors-in-chief is the plural of editor-in-chief.
What part of speech is editors-in-chief?
Editors-in-chief is a noun.

Words near editors-in-chief in the dictionary

  1. editorless
  2. editorlike
  3. editors
  4. editors in chief
  5. editors-at-large
  6. editors-in-chief
  7. editorship
  8. editorships
  9. editosome
  10. editosomes
  11. editour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: editors-in-chief (page history and authors); Editors-in-Chief (page history and authors); editor-in-chief (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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