Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.
- noun The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college.
- transitive verb To act as chairman of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wheels an invalid's or other similar chair.
- noun pl. chairmen (-men).
- noun The presiding officer of an assembly, association, company, committee, or public meeting.
- noun One who assists in Carrying a sedan-chair. Prior. Also called
chair-bearer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
- noun One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
- noun The head of a
corporate orgovernmental board of directors , a committee, or other formal entity. - noun historical Someone whose job is to
carry people in a portablechair ,sedan chair , or similar conveyance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- verb act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
Etymologies
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Examples
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Earlier in October, McKelvy resigned as chief executive officer, though he retained his director's seat and was given the title chairman emeritus.
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Burch will assume the title chairman of the firm's board, but will effectively take over the all senior partner responsibilities.
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Burch will assume the title chairman of the firm's board, but will effectively take over the all senior partner responsibilities.
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The reunion marks a happier chapter for the pop star and her label chairman, who
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The GOP trying to find a chairman is a party looking for a vision and direction; the have neither.
No Clear Front-Runner for Republican Chairman - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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I believe that the Public Accounts Committee should be modelled after the British Committee wherein the majority of members belong to the Opposition party and the chairman is an Opposition member.
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The group was arrested back in May at the start of the Sen.te Finance Committee's debate on a health care bill with they disrupted the hearing over what they called chairman Sen. Max Baucus '
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The group was arrested back in May at the start of the Sen.te Finance Committee's debate on a health care bill with they disrupted the hearing over what they called chairman Sen. Max Baucus '
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What any indeed innate again chairman should rely on for vital is a hold up of a spirit.
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The various schools of suspicion in chairman psychology all understand stress from somewhat opposite perspectives.
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