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: --
Public weighbridges are of course envisaged; and the kingpin of the success, or otherwise, of the plating of these vehicles is that there is an adequate number of them.
The second is a director—or director-general, as it is now rather fashionable to call him in some quarters—who is the kingpin of the organisation and is responsible to the trustees.
The registrar is the kingpin who will draw up the register, but he will not be able to pay any attention to it at all for at least a month.
Wherever one goes and however one looks at the question, the cost of freight is the absolute kingpin upon which the whole economy rests.
The riveter used to be the kingpin of the yards, concerned with hammering in the rivets which held the plates and sections together.
That was originally regarded as a kingpin in the original proposal and as compensation for the destruction of the estuary.
He must now be very proud that transport is the kingpin of the political scene.
It is not meant to be the kingpin of the exercise.
