| 单词 | kingpin |
| 释义 | kingpin noun[C] uk/ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/us/ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/the mostimportantpersonwithin aparticularorganization （组织中的）主要人物，领袖Compare bigwiginformal Important people and describing important people
kingpin| American Dictionarykingpin noun[C] us/ˈkɪŋˌpɪn/the mostimportantpersonin anorganization: He was the kingpin of theDemocraticorganizationin Chicago. kingpin| Business Englishkingpin noun[C,usually singular] uk/ˈkɪŋpɪn/usthe mostimportantpersonin acompanyororganization, often anillegalorganization: adrugs/crimekingpin Examplesofkingpinkingpin Current technology allows the chip in its various forms to be thekingpinof new information-gathering systems. From theCambridge English Corpus Clause 2, however, has administered an appalling knock to society by loosening its most importantkingpin, marriage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It represented a cornerstone, a keystone, akingpinfor that commercial community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thekingpinof this agenda, the unifying element that drove our actions and gave them coherence, was enlargement. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English The board says that the local licensing committee is thekingpinof the licensing machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The company is thekingpinof the private sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the present system, it is perfectly obvious that we are developing the secondary modern school as thekingpinof our educational system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not meant to be thekingpinof the exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He must now be very proud that transport is thekingpinof the political scene. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 That was originally regarded as akingpinin the original proposal and as compensation for the destruction of the estuary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The riveter used to be thekingpinof the yards, concerned with hammering in the rivets which held the plates and sections together. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Wherever one goes and however one looks at the question, the cost of freight is the absolutekingpinupon which the whole economy rests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The registrar is thekingpinwho will draw up the register, but he will not be able to pay any attention to it at all for at least a month. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The second is a director—or director-general, as it is now rather fashionable to call him in some quarters—who is thekingpinof the organisation and is responsible to the trustees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Public weighbridges are of course envisaged; and thekingpinof the success, or otherwise, of the plating of these vehicles is that there is an adequate number of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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