chairing
- 1Present participle and gerund of chair.
She is chairing the budget committee for the second year in a row.
Chairing the panel meant keeping six speakers to strict time limits.
Note
One spelling carries three quite different actions. The everyday one is presiding: chairing a meeting or a committee. It can also mean hoisting someone onto your shoulders in celebration, or, in Wales, awarding the chair to the winning poet at an eisteddfod. All three take a direct object, and the object usually tells you which is meant: a panel is presided over, a captain is carried, a poet is honored.
The crowd was chairing the captain around the field after the final whistle.
At the eisteddfod, the judges were chairing the winning poet.
chairing is a form of chair
chair, verb: To act as the chairperson of a meeting or gathering; to preside over the proceedings. Full entry
- Spelling
- chair → chairing: add -ing
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