# chairman

Pronunciation: say "CHAIR-muhn" US /ˈtʃɛɹ.mən/, UK /ˈtʃɛːmən/

## Noun

1. The person who presides over a meeting, committee, or board, or who heads an organization's board.
   - Simple: The person in charge of a meeting, a committee, or the board of a company or group.
   - _The chairman of the supervisory board resigned amid the scandal._
   - _As chairman, she set the agenda for every quarterly meeting._
3. A professor who leads an academic department at a college or university, overseeing its staff and running its affairs. *(US)*
   - Simple: A professor who is in charge of a department at a college or university and runs its staff and work.
   - _As chairman of the history department, he hires new faculty and sets the course schedule each semester._
   - _Three department chairmen signed the letter asking the provost to restore their budgets._

## Verb

2. To serve as the chairman of a board, committee, or meeting.
   - Simple: To act as the leader who runs a meeting or group.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A person employed to carry passengers in a sedan chair or similar portable seat.

## Origin

Formed from the word 'chair' combined with the suffix '-man'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/chairman (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).