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Synonyms for headman

one who is highest in rank or authority

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Synonyms for headman

an executioner who beheads the condemned person

the head of a tribe or clan

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The government also does nothing to solve people's problem", the village headman told ANI.
Supt Freeman said the family of the man, who is a headman of arbitration for Borai ward in Rakops, reported him missing on August 20th.
Headman was headstrong when sixth of nine on soft ground at Newbury on his return, but redeemed himself with a short-head margin over Sinjaari in the Berkshire course's London Gold Cup last time out.
SINJAARI thrusted late but couldn't quite get to Headman and he was probably a little unlucky as he didn't get the clearest of runs when making his challenge.
Headman may have only clung on by a short head at Newbury in the London Gold Cup - but that race is notoriously red hot, and to win it off top weight was no mean feat.
She said the village headman Sili Bunsi had consulted her on the invitation to Gobind to attend the celebration at Kampung Sungai Buluh in Batang Sadong parliamentary constituency.
NNA - Information Minister Jamal Jarrah said Friday in a statement that the Sunni community has chosen its leader and headman, Saad Hariri.
Speaking to journalists in their villages on Monday, the families called on the National Land Commission (NLC) and the county government of Lamu to intervene and help save over 700 acres of land from the grabbers by demarcating and issuing them with title deeds which they can then use as security.Mkondoni Village Headman Hassan Chonde said they have lived on the land for over 20 years.
The contract Mullins signed is quite lucrative for a first-year headman, at $475,000 per year for five years.
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DADU -- The Otha community and Rind tribe, by accepting a jirga (tribal court) ruling, have buried the hatchet declaring an end to their 25 years of hostility that had left six persons, including a tribal headman, dead.
The residents of Lassipora area of Pulwama talking to media men said that the personnel of 55-Rashtriya Rifles while beating the people without any provocation also didn't spare the local headman and preacher, reported.
The village headman of Togoru was easy to find since only three houses are left of the village.
Each kgotla is led by a traditional headman known as a kgosana (plural dikgosana), who passes information from the kgotla to the supreme council and the RBN Administration (RBA) and back again.
Just as this violent incident was on the verge of a homicide, the Association's Headman arrived in his Soviet-style Volga car (a gift from Tyvan government-officials in compensation for his shamanic ancestors' killing by the Soviet persecutors several decades earlier).