What does Chairman mean?
Definitions for Chairman
ˈtʃɛər mənChair·man
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Chairman.
Princeton's WordNet
president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson(verb)
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
"address your remarks to the chairperson"
chair, chairman(verb)
act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
"She chaired the department for many years"
Wiktionary
chairman(Noun)
A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
chairman(Noun)
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
chairman(Noun)
Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan-chair, or similar conveyance.
Webster Dictionary
Chairman(noun)
the presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body
Chairman(noun)
one whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan
Freebase
Chairman
The chairman, also simply known as the chair, is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chairman presides over meetings of the assembled group and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. When the group is not in session, the officer's duties often include acting as its head, its representative to the outside world and its spokesperson.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Chairman
Provides the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chairman
Provides the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Chairman' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #983
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Chairman' in Written Corpus Frequency: #576
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Chairman' in Nouns Frequency: #380
Anagrams for Chairman »
Charmian
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Chairman in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Chairman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Chairman in a Sentence
I am all in favor of the President calling Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the whistleblower, and if( White House Intelligence Chairman) Adam Schiff thinks Adam Schiff can veto defense witnesses, then it is a complete sham and a farce and I would advise Republicans to not participate in anything that doesn't allow defense witnesses.
We've reached the point, after the events of this week, where it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility of the investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself from matters involving either the Trump campaign or the Trump transition team of which he was a member, the questions are profound enough that I think we need to move past it, and ideally that would mean the chairman ought to recuse himself, not only from the investigation involving potential coordination or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but also any oversight of minimization issues affecting the Trump transition since he was a member of that Trump transition team.
( House) Speaker( Nancy) Pelosi and White House Democrats are running an unfair, unconstitutional and illegitimate' impeachment' proceeding. The Democrats' sham hearings provide zero due process to The President and are being conducted entirely in secret, except for the out-of-context parts that( White House) Chairman( Adam) Schiff determines should be selectively leaked to the press. The President can not be expected to participate in this illegitimate process.
So if more is required…I will go to the president with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as I have, and if he's done like he's done so far, he'll say go for it because we need to get this done quickly.
It was a great meeting, chairman Kim... will turn that country into a great, successful country. Let me tell you this, a year and a half ago no one thought that was possible.
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- رئيسArabic
- председателBulgarian
- předsedaCzech
- Vorsitzende, VorsitzenderGerman
- πρόεδροςGreek
- prezidantoEsperanto
- presidenteSpanish
- puheenjohtajaFinnish
- secrétaire général, présidentFrench
- cathaoirleachIrish
- neach-na-cathrachScottish Gaelic
- ard-hoiederManx
- יושב־ראשHebrew
- elnökHungarian
- նախագահArmenian
- presidente, chairmanInterlingua
- presidenteItalian
- 理事長, 委員長, 議長Japanese
- praesesLatin
- pirmininkas, pirmininkėLithuanian
- ċermenMaltese
- styreformannNorwegian
- voorzitterDutch
- styreformann, møtelederNorwegian
- alą́ąjįʼ dahsidáhígííNavajo, Navaho
- przewodniczącyPolish
- presidentePortuguese
- directorRomanian
- председательRussian
- نِشِستمانSindhi
- ordförandeSwedish
- chủ tịchVietnamese
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