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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A chairman or chairwoman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; -- same as chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

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chair +‎ person, after chairman and chairwoman

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