chairman

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A person 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.
 * 1)   Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
 * 1)   Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.

Usage notes

 * Historically this term denoted a man, but it is now also used for women. Other gender-neutral terms could be chairperson or just chair.

Hypernyms

 * officer, presider
 * officer, presider

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَئِيس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: sədr
 * Belarusian: старшыня́,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Cebuano: tagsiya, tsirman
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 主席, 議長
 * Dungan: җўщи
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: formand
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (for a political party),
 * Georgian: თავმჯდომარე
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπιστάτης, πρόεδρος
 * Hebrew: יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁ
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: presidente, chairman
 * Irish: cathaoirleach, fear cathaoireach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 理事長
 * Kazakh: басқарма
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປະທານ
 * Lithuanian: pirmininkas, pirmininkė
 * Macedonian: претседател
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ċermen
 * Manx: ard-hoieder
 * Mingrelian: დუდმახვენჯი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ
 * Navajo: alą́ąjįʼ dahsidáhígíí
 * Norwegian: styreformann
 * Bokmål: møteleder
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Väasetta
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: (da assembleia)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: neach-na-cathrach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре́дседнӣк, пре́дсједнӣк
 * Roman: prédsednīk,
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: predseda
 * Slovene: predsedujoči,
 * Spanish:, secretario general
 * Sranan Tongo: amrabasi
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tagapangulo
 * Tajik: раис, садр
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * White Hmong: tswv rooj


 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: nantʼán
 * Belarusian: старшыня́,
 * Cebuano: tagsiya, tsirman
 * Esperanto: prezidanto
 * Finnish: hallituksen puheenjohtaja,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Malay:
 * Mingrelian: დუდმახვენჯი
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: styreformann
 * Plautdietsch: Väasetta
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tagapangulo
 * Ukrainian:
 * White Hmong: tswv rooj

Verb

 * 1) To serve as chairman.