Chairman

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
 * 2) The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
 * 3)  Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan-chair, or similar conveyance.
 * 4) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 618:
 * Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire [...]

Antonyms

 * chairwoman

Hypernyms

 * chair, chairperson
 * presiding officer, presider

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: председател
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , 议长
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (for a political party),
 * German: Vorsitzender, Vorsitzende
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יושב־ראש
 * Hungarian:

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 * Interlingua: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, {{t-|ja|委員長|tr=いいんちょう, iinchō, {{t-|ja|理事長|tr=りじちょう, rijicho}}
 * Lithuanian: {{t|lt|pirmininkas|m|xs=Lithuanian}}, {{t|lt|pirmininkė|f|xs=Lithuanian}}
 * Maltese: {{t|mt|ċermen|xs=Maltese}}
 * Manx: {{t|gv|ard-hoieder|m}}
 * Norwegian: {{t|no|styreformann}}, {{t|no|møteleder}}
 * Portuguese: {{t+|pt|presidente}} (da assembleia)
 * Romanian: {{t-|ro|director}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|председатель|m|tr=predsedátel'}}
 * Scottish Gaelic: neach-na-cathrach {{m|f}}
 * Sindhi: {{t|sd|نِشِستمان|sc=Arab|xs=Sindhi}}
 * Spanish: {{t+|es|presidente}}
 * Swedish: {{t+|sv|ordförande|c}}
 * Vietnamese: {{t|vi|chủ tịch|xs=Vietnamese}}

{{trans-top|head of a corporate or governmental board}}
 * Esperanto: {{t-|eo|prezidanto|xs=Esperanto}}
 * Greek:

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 * Russian: {{t+|ru|председатель|m|tr=predsedátel'}}

Anagrams

 * Charmian

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