Synonyms:
president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson
Meaning: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
chair, chairman
Meaning: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years"
Usage examples
'First-rate!' said the Chairman.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Vice Chairman of the New York Suffrage Party, said:
Clemenceau was the chairman of the conference and sat at the head of the table.
"It's only fair to say that I've given him an ultimatum, too." She hinted at what she had told the chairman.
"We've enacted the Emancipation Act," Olvir Nikkolon, who was ex officio chairman of the committee, reported.
The resolution was referred to a committee of which he was chairman, and a report was made in favor of the measure.
The chairman then put a vote of confidence in the candidate, which was carried by acclamation, and the meeting broke up.
A committee was at once appointed to work out a constitution for such an organization and President Wilson was made the chairman.
The nineteen men who made up the committee belonged to fourteen nations. President Wilson, as chairman, called them together in this room.
The resolution was sponsored by Representative Pou, Chairman of the Rules Committee and Administration leader, himself an anti- suffragist.