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chef noun

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Definition

a skilled and trained cook who works in a hotel or restaurant, especially the most important cook
He is one of the top chefs in Britain.
She is head-chef at the Waldorf-Astoria.

(Definition of chef noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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