Chairman Definition

chârmən
chairman, chairmen
noun
chairmen
A person who presides at a meeting or heads a committee, board, etc.
Webster's New World
The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college.
American Heritage
A man whose work is to carry or wheel people in a chair.
Webster's New World
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verb
To preside over as chairman.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Chairman

Noun

Singular:
chairman
Plural:
chairmen

Origin of Chairman

  • From chair +‎ -man

    From Wiktionary

Chairman Sentence Examples

  • He served as chairman of many commissions dealing with public health, prohibition, and labour.

  • In 1905 he was chairman of the r'Iass.

  • From 1875 to 1887, when he entered the U.S. Senate, he was again a representative in Congress, and from 1877 almost continuously to the close of his service he was chairman of the Committee on Commerce, in which capacity he had a prominent part in securing the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

  • As they died, they shouted, 'Communist Party, Chairman Mao, save us.'

  • His power was formerly of great extent, but he has now practically no important duty to exercise except that of chairman of the Dover harbour board.

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