chairperson

chairperson — chair‧per‧son [ˈtʆeəˌpɜːsn ǁ ˈtʆerˌpɜːrsn] noun chairpersons PLURALFORM or chairpeople [ ˌpiːpl] [countable] COMMERCE someone who is in charge of a meeting or who directs the work of a committee or o …   Financial and business terms

chairperson — n. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; same as {chair[3]} or {chairman[1]}, but used to achieve a sex neutral register. Syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

chairperson — index chief Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

chairperson — (n.) 1971, from CHAIR (Cf. chair) (n.) + PERSON (Cf. person) …   Etymology dictionary

chairperson — [n] person in charge of proceedings administrator, captain, chair, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesperson, symposiarch; concepts 348,376 …   New thesaurus

chairperson — ► NOUN ▪ a chairman or chairwoman …   English terms dictionary

chairperson — [cher′pʉr΄sən] n. CHAIRMAN (n. 1): used to avoid the masculine implication of chairman …   English World dictionary

chairperson — chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, chair The term chairman, which combines connotations of power with grammatical gender bias, has been a keyword in feminist sensitivities about language. Chairwoman dates from the 17c, but (as the OED notes) it… …   Modern English usage

chairperson — chairpersonship, n. /chair perr seuhn/, n. 1. a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc. 2. the administrative head of a department in a high school, college, or university. [1970 75; CHAIR(MAN) + PERSON] Usage. CHAIRPERSON has …   Universalium

Chairperson — Der Begriff Chairperson wird verwendet: allgemein als emanzipierte Form des Begriffs Chairman im Zusammenhang mit der Themenzentrierten Interaktion von Ruth Cohn, siehe Chairperson (TZI) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

chairperson — [[t]tʃe͟ə(r)pɜː(r)s(ə)n[/t]] chairpersons N COUNT The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it. She s the chairperson of the safety committee …   English dictionary