Definition of "editor in chief" [editor in chief]

• The editor having final responsibility for the operations and policies of a publication. (noun)

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• "Hu Xijin, editor in chief of Global Times part of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily, cited the incident in an item he posted on the Chinese version of Twitter attacking his own government."
• "Global fashion icon and editor in chief of American Vogue magazine and assumed clotheshorse Anna Wintour agrees."
• "The lexicographer Frank Abate, former editor in chief of American dictionaries for Oxford University Press, disagrees: The idea of ‘pale’ in the OED seems to me to be misleading."