chairman

The chairman is defined as the president, the person in charge or the person who presides over a meeting, company or department.

(noun)

The person in charge of heading up the history department in a college is an example of the chairman of the history department.

See chairman in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. chairmen

to preside over as chairman

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See chairman in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.
The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college. See Usage Notes at man, person.

transitive verb chair·manned, chair·man·ning, chair·mans

To act as chairman of.

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