PRESIDING OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does presiding officer mean? 

• PRESIDING OFFICER (noun)
  The noun PRESIDING OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. the leader of a group meeting

  Familiarity information: PRESIDING OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESIDING OFFICER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The leader of a group meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("presiding officer" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presiding officer"):

moderator (someone who presides over a forum or debate)

moderator (in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly)

chair; chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president (the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization)

Speaker (the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly)

 Context examples 

The presiding officer who examines abstract or generic ideas generalized from particular instances.

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