chairperson
Pluralchairpersons, chairpeople
- 1The person who presides over a meeting, board, or other organized body, directing its proceedings.
The chairperson called the board to order and read out the agenda.
As chairperson, she kept the discussion on track and put each motion to a vote.
Similarchair, chairman, chairwoman, president, moderator
Note
A compound built on the pattern of chairman and chairwoman, with person standing where the gendered element stood, so the title names the role without naming the holder's sex. It takes two plurals: chairpersons follows the ordinary noun pattern, while chairpeople follows person and people. Either is correct, so a writer can choose by ear and simply keep to one within a document.
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Origin
Formed from 'chair' and 'person', made on the model of 'chairman' and 'chairwoman'.