premier

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/ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/

adjective · noun

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Examples

The premier and his cabinet colleagues resigned.
Today's paper reports that the premier has given up the idea of visiting America.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.
The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet., The prime minister.
Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.

In context

One of the country’s premier chefs
1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910, Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the P...
2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40, This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is...

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South Africa′s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country′s premier courses.
2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer′s South Africa, 7th edition, unnumbered page
PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c.
[1777, Antoine Pyron du Marte, Mr. Porny, The Elements of Heraldry
Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state′s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier.
1998, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 16, page 61
So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
2008, Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today, page 470
Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh′s Quartet, had also received Beethoven′s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
1998, John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music, page 231

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Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.