Chatham

American  

[chat-uhm] / ˈtʃæt əm /

noun

1. 1st Earl of. Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham.

2. a city in N Kent, in SE England.

3. a city in SW Ontario, in S Canada, near Lake St. Clair.

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Chatham ¹ British  

/ ˈtʃætəm /

noun

1. a town in SE England, in N Kent on the River Medway: formerly royal naval dockyard. Pop: 73 468 (2001)

2. a town in SE Canada, in SE Ontario on the Thames River. Pop: 44 156 (2001)

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Chatham ² British  

/ ˈtʃætəm /

noun

1. 1st Earl of title of the elder (William) Pitt See Pitt

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Example Sentences

"If the two sides could move ahead with a reasonable trading relationship, that is already an achievement," says Dr Yu Jie, a Senior Research Fellow on the China, Asia-Pacific Programme at the Chatham House think tank.

From BBC

“If you can get out now and do something now, that is 100% the desire,” said Amol Dhargalkar, managing partner and chairman at Chatham Financial, adding that companies aren’t necessarily borrowing more than they need.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Right now, there's very little that will accommodate the protesters because these protests are about something bigger," says Dr Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House.

From BBC

From the Arab Gulf perspective, the best-case scenario is for protests in Iran to end, domestic negotiations spur some reforms and U.S. negotiations tamp everything down, said Neil Quilliam, an associate fellow at international-affairs think tank Chatham House in the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The primary impact would be to shore up elite unity and suppress fractures within the regime at a moment of heightened vulnerability," says Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the London-based think tank Chatham House.

From BBC