Difference between Chair and Chairman

What is the difference between Chair and Chairman?

Chair as a noun is an item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench. while Chairman as a noun is a person presiding over a meeting.

Chair

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench. The electric chair. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra. Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices. Chairperson; a non-gender-specific form of chairman. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To act as chairperson. To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

Example sentence: We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

Chairman

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person presiding over a meeting.The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan-chair, or similar conveyance.

Example sentence: I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

We hope you now know whether to use Chair or Chairman in your sentence.

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