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chairman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "occupier of a chair of authority," from chair (n.) + man (n.). Meaning "member of a corporate body chosen to preside at meetings" is from c.1730. Chairwoman in this sense first attested 1752; chairperson 1971.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee , or a deliberative assembly . The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chair presides over meetings of the assembled ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting. 2 The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity. 3 (context historical English) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, ...
Usage examples of chairman.
Hawk had concluded the deal with David and Abraham Solomon which relied on her shares and proxy in the new conglomerate for him to be chairman.
Chairman of the Board purpled and ran for the airboat com to call the Coast Guard.
For instance, in 1981 Harry Oppenheimer, chairman of the giant Anglo American Corporation that controls gold and diamond mining, sales and distribution in the world, stated that he was about to launch into the North American banking market.
Three years later, Mrs Axford was elected Chairman of the first Local Spiritual Assembly in Auckland and for many years conducted classes in public speaking to help the friends overcome their shyness and reticence so that they might teach the Faith effectively.
Florian Backhouse, chairman of Continuum, made a joke and Mary laughed briefly.
William Basswood, and then watch my little man become chairman of the board!
Woolf, father of Sarah Woolf, owner of dinky Georgian house in Lyall Street, Belgravia, employer of blind and vindictive interior designers, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaine Parker.
Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, to be held by the Roosevelt for President Club at the Biltmore Saturday.
It was Eli Camperdown who moved first, returning to his seat beside the chairman of the board where the two senior officers began a second urgent, low-voiced conversation.
His contributions to various organizations had caused an assortment of chairmen and chairladies and executive secretaries, upon news of his death, to have a deep and decent interest in the terms of his will, but except for a few modest bequests everything had gone to his widow.
He could have a little taste of life on the fez, maybe use it in a school essay in the fall, and tell his friends all about how his uncle, the chairman of the Pine Lake Band of Chippewa, had taken him fishing.
Another input was connected by wire to the administrative telephone circuits, so that the Chairman of the Commission could speak to the entire city over the entertainment system without leaving his office.
University, chairman of Ogilvie Flour Mills and a director of eleven other major companies, he was one of the few distinguished nonWinnipeggers to join the HBC Committee.
The KGB chairman, Kryuchkov, was reported to have assembled his lieutenants in a Lubyanka conference room and given them an ultimatum: Crush the counterrevolution within twenty-four hours.
Chairman, it is no counterrevolutionary plot, no nonsensical Trotskyite brigandage.