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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chairperson
noun
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▪ A nine-member group, elected by the other students, is called together by its chairperson, Sherri.
▪ Academic deans and chairpersons usually have a doctorate in their specialty.
▪ References to chairpersons and spokeswomen no longer excite much comment.
▪ The Lydende Party vehemently opposed the committee chairperson, partly as a consequence of longstanding family feuds.
▪ They direct and coordinate activities of deans of individual colleges and chairpersons of academic departments.
▪ This could only be achieved through the support of the chairperson and headteacher.
▪ Who is on them, who is their chairperson, and to whom do they report?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chairperson

chairperson \chairperson\ n. 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.

Syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chairperson

1971, American English, from chair (n.) + person.

Wiktionary
chairperson

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

WordNet
chairperson

n. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair]

Usage examples of "chairperson".

Chairperson Andrea Danza, a young Santa Barbara native, took the podium to introduce Sheriff Gearhart.

Chairperson Danza claimed to have problems with Gearhart as well, though she only confessed those off-the-record, woman-to-woman.

Thorpe were needed back in the field, Chairperson Danza ended the press conference.

The TV reporters went over to Chairperson Danza to discuss going up to the Painted Cave sinkhole and taking videos.

Chairperson of the Data Bank Committee of the Asaph Hall Society, I can tell you everything you want to know about Phobos and Deimos.

And last year the former chairperson of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Dorothy Weaver, reported that an Uzi was stolen from her bedroom.

The chairperson of Citizens for Safer Medicine strode confidently forward from the rear of the room and went to a microphone at the witness table, some distance from Celia and Quentin.

Lighthouse Preservation, board member of Active Women Over Forty, chairperson of the Historical Society.

At our meeting last Wednesday, I had to cover my eyes when she stepped onto the dais, handed in her board resignation, was stripped of all honours and asked to step down as Chairperson of Dried Flower Arranging.

The chairperson at the table up by the podium has a clock and a novelty-shop gong.

He was Council chairperson and always sat tinkering with a rubber mallet which he used as a gavel.

It looks like Trevor Graumann is going to be Chairperson of the Council.

After all, how could one argue with the girl who was, back at their New York City college, the chairman of the Free Speech Committee, the president of the antibrutality association, the vice chairman of the crusade to end fascism, and chairperson of the Stop Secrecy in Government Committee, ad hoc Presidential War Crimes division.

So it went between 9:00 and 9:30, at which time Jessie Jenkins who had been elected chairperson pro tern by an almost universal nonacclaim, recessed for lunch.

Hall to mark a decade of fundraising by the Upper Charfont Beneficiary Trust and to honour one of its founder members and, more recently, its chairperson, Mrs.