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
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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
The Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff briefed the President yesterday on plans to redeploy 9,500 troops from Germany.
Industry Minister Monica Maeland:
I no longer have trust in the chairman of Telenor.
As Chairman Nunes said just the other day, if we got all the information we're looking for, we could wrap this up faster. But I have seen no evidence to the contrary of, of the initial assessment that Chairman Gowdy has made, but I want to make sure that we run every lead down and make sure we get final answers to these questions.
I do believe in meetings, look, I believe that having a meeting with Chairman Kim was a good thing. I think having meetings with the President of China was a very good thing, I believe it's really good. And so having meetings with Russia, China, North Korea, I believe in North Korea. Nothing bad's going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out. But I go in with low expectations, I'm not going in with high expectations. I don't, I don't really, I can't tell you what's going to happen, but I can tell you what I'll be asking for and we'll see if something comes of it.
I know this will shock the viewers -- the vice-chairman of the Vermont Republican Party who happened to be Donald Trump's campaign manager raised this issue and initiated this investigation, … I think what you're looking at is something that [the] Republican National Committee is very excited about.
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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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