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

  • noun The office or term of a chairman.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The office of a chairman or presiding officer, as of a committee or board; the performance of the duties of a chairman.

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

  • noun The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

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

  • noun The office, or the term of a chairman.

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

  • noun the position of chairman

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chairman +‎ -ship

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