0 the most important person within a particular organization
1 the most important person in an organization:
He was the kingpin of the Democratic organization in Chicago.
2 the most important person in a company or organization, often an illegal organization:
Current technology allows the chip in its various forms to be the kingpin of new information-gathering systems.
Clause 2, however, has administered an appalling knock to society by loosening its most important kingpin, marriage.
It represented a cornerstone, a keystone, a kingpin for that commercial community.
The kingpin of this agenda, the unifying element that drove our actions and gave them coherence, was enlargement.
The board says that the local licensing committee is the kingpin of the licensing machinery.
The company is the kingpin of the private sector.
Under the present system, it is perfectly obvious that we are developing the secondary modern school as the kingpin of our educational system.
It is not meant to be the kingpin of the exercise.
