chair

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chair
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Meanings
noun
  • a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs.
  • the person in charge of a meeting or of an organization (used as a neutral alternative to chairman or chairwoman).
    E.g. she's the chair of a research committee
  • a professorship.
    E.g. he held a chair in physics
  • a metal socket holding a rail in place on a railway sleeper.
verb
  • act as chairperson of or preside over (an organization, meeting, or public event).
    E.g. the debate was chaired by the Archbishop of York
  • carry (someone) aloft in a chair or in a sitting position to celebrate a victory.
    E.g. no one seemed anxious to chair him round the hall

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