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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chairwoman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
say
▪ I mean, I don't object to sensible changes - saying chairwoman when it's appropriate, for instance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A woman who chairs a meeting is either a chairwoman or a chair, never a chairman.
▪ I mean, I don't object to sensible changes - saying chairwoman when it's appropriate, for instance.
▪ She later served a term as chairwoman of the council.
▪ Stewart, chairwoman of Omnimedia, will relinquish the job of editor in chief at her magazine to editor Stephen Drucker.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chairwoman

chairwoman \chairwoman\ n. a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.

Syn: president, chairman, chair, chairperson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chairwoman

"woman who leads a formal meeting," 1752, from chair (n.) + woman.

Wiktionary
chairwoman

n. 1 A female chairperson 2 (context obsolete English) A charwoman

WordNet
chairwoman

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

Usage examples of "chairwoman".

It included five items: the change in schedule of a rodeo at Tuba City, a plan to improve the runway of the landing strip at Kayenta, the death in the hospital at Gallup of the former chairwoman of the Coyote Pass Chapter, the replacement of the retired principal of the Toadlena school, and the murder of Eric Dorsey at the Saint Bonaventure Indian Mission.

She was also national chairwoman of the Coalition of Republican Environmental Advocates, a group funded by Ford Motor Company and BP Amoco.

He leaned sideways and conferred rapidly with the chairwoman, then pointed discreetly with his pen.

Threadneedle, the chairwoman, made haste to admit her to the work site and even went so far as to mention her interest to the vicar.

I caught a glimpse of the congressional committee chairwoman, up in the special VIP section behind plate glass windows, staring hard at him.

Mimbs and ma'am, when they'd been on a first-name basis for all the twenty-five years she'd been chairwoman of the House and Grounds Committee.

Ways Chairwoman, Betty White, tells me that if we all pull our weight and sell one hundred boxes each, the proposed day trip to the Tower of London is distinctly feasible.

But although Cuijeta Krizanic might be the committee's chairwoman, five of its eight members were either Democratic Centralists or Social Moderates.

But although Cuijeta Krizanic might be the committee’s chairwoman, five of its eight members were either Democratic Centralists or Social Moderates.

As chairwoman of the board of the Kiribati Corporation, her responsibilities to her people were many and weighty.

Speaking for the Trustees and for the Chairman, this is Arabelle Foote-Hedrick, Chairwoman Pro Tempore of the Howard Families.