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chair
[ chair ]
noun
- a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair:
The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.
- a seat of office or authority.
- a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.
- the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting:
The speaker addressed the chair.
- (in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk:
first clarinet chair.
- the chair, Informal. electric chair.
- (in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.
- a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.
- British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to place or seat in a chair.
- to install in office.
- to preside over; act as chairperson of:
to chair a committee.
- British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.
verb (used without object)
- to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.
chair
/ ʃɛə /
noun
- a seat with a back on which one person sits, typically having four legs and often having arms
- an official position of authority
a chair on the board of directors
- the person chairing a debate or meeting
the speaker addressed the chair
- a professorship
the chair of German
- railways an iron or steel cradle bolted to a sleeper in which the rail sits and is locked in position
- short for sedan chair
- in the chairchairing a debate or meeting
- take the chairto preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- the chairan informal name for electric chair
verb
- to preside over (a meeting)
- to carry aloft in a sitting position after a triumph or great achievement
- to provide with a chair of office
- to install in a chair
Gender Note
Other Word Forms
- · adjective
- ܲ· verb (used with object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of chair1
Idioms and Phrases
- get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.
- take the chair,
- to begin or open a meeting.
- to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.
More idioms and phrases containing chair
see musical chairs .Example Sentences
"A sizeable minority depend on being able to use cash," said Dame Meg Hillier, who chairs the influential Treasury Committee.
Trump trained his ire instead on Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, who by law is meant to operate independently until his term ends in the spring of next year.
The chair of England's first public inquiry into mental health deaths vowed to "seek out the truth" - despite difficulties getting documents from the NHS.
This month, an appeals court struck down a $57-million fine the previous FCC chair had imposed on AT&T, finding the FCC had overstepped.
And then he will chair the G7 Summit in Canada in June as President Trump's 90 day deadline expires.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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