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UK
/ɹˈɪŋɡliːdɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪŋˌɫidɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪŋˌɫidɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who leads (especially in illicit activities)
How To Use ringleader In A Sentence
- If they would just look at the ringleaders of this boycott they would soon find out that they were commos.
- Police quickly dispersed the crowd and dispatched the ringleaders to prison.
- Two ringleaders convicted of treason were pardoned by Washington.
- He declares with regard to the tares, "The tares are the children of the wicked one," [4436] it must be affirmed that He has ascribed all who are of the apostasy to him who is the ringleader of this transgression. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
- Officers wearing body armour and riot helmets removed those identified as the ringleaders. Times, Sunday Times
- Amateur sleuths will be able to record footage of gang ringleaders and other yobs in action, which can then be used by police as evidence in court.
- Twenty-five prisoners, thought to be the ringleaders of a hunger strike caused by appalling food, were confined to a punitive boiler room whose temperature could go up to 200 degrees.
- The soldiers were well informed about the ringleaders of the protest.
- Always ‘one of the lads’, and habitually the ringleader, he accepts now that he kept unsuitable hours and company, usually on licensed premises.
- The alleged ringleaders in the plot have been under surveillance since 2005, security sources said. Times, Sunday Times