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CHAIRPERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chairperson mean?
• CHAIRPERSON (noun)
The noun CHAIRPERSON has 1 sense:
1. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
Familiarity information: CHAIRPERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
chair; chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president
Context example:
address your remarks to the chairperson
Hypernyms ("chairperson" is a kind of...):
presiding officer (the leader of a group meeting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chairperson"):
Kalon Tripa (the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile)
vice chairman (one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman)
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