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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson] v
1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair, chairman]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1592 1. a. the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or event b. the administrative officer of a department of instruction (as in a college) 2. a carrier of a sedan chair • chairmanship noun II. transitive verb (-maned or -manned; -maning or -manning) Date: 1888 chair 3

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -men; fem. chairwoman, pl. -women) 1 a person chosen to preside over a meeting. 2 the permanent president of a committee, a board of directors, a firm, etc. 3 the master of ceremonies at an entertainment etc. 4 hist. either of two sedan-bearers. Derivatives: chairmanship n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chairman Chair"man, n.; pl. Chairmen. 1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. 2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. --Prior.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chairmen) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The chairman of a committee, organization, or company is the head of it. Glyn Ford is chairman of the Committee which produced the report... I had done business with the company's chairman. N-COUNT: oft with poss 2. The chairman of a meeting or debate is the person in charge, who decides when each person is allowed to speak. The chairman declared the meeting open... I hear you, Mr. Chairman. N-COUNT; N-VOC: Mr/Madam N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Chair, presiding officer.