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chairperson
[chair-pur-suhn]
noun
a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
the administrative head of a department in a high school, college, or university.
chairperson
/ ˈtʃɛəˌpɜːsən /
noun
another word for chairman
Gender Note
Other Word Forms
- chairpersonship noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of chairperson1
Example Sentences
Louise McCullough, the chairperson of east Belfast community charity Elevate East, said the housing situation "relates very closely to a lot of the social issues".
A couple of hours before the polls closed, Malawi Electoral Commission chairperson Annabel Mtalimanja said 3.7 million people - just half of those who had registered to vote - had cast their ballot.
But two members have since stepped down, and there has been no permanent chairperson for more than a year.
“It’s a really hard adjustment,” said Golden, chairperson of the Senate’s Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee.
“I thought people were going to die that day,” said Tala Ali, a chairperson of the Clifton Mosque in Cincinnati and a trained protest marshal.
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