cochair

[ koh-chair ]

verb (used with or without object)

to chair along with another person or persons.

noun

a cochairperson.

Origin of cochair

¹

First recorded in 1965–70: co- + chair (verb)

usage note For cochair

Is it cochair, cochairman, cochairwoman, or cochairperson? See chairperson.

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How to use cochair in a sentence

That undertaking, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, will revolutionize our understanding of how the early solar system evolved, says Schwamb, a cochair of the LSST Solar System Science Collaboration.
The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar system | Katherine Kornei | August 23, 2022 | Science News
From 2014 to 2017, I was cochair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
True innovation requires big tech, academia and government to work together | Shirley Ann Jackson | February 22, 2022 | MIT Technology Review
Alison Bateman-House is an assistant professor at the division and a cochair of CUPA.
Drug companies shouldn’t play favorites in granting access to experimental covid-19 treatments | Amy Nordrum | October 24, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

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