Difference between Chairman and Chair

What is the difference between Chairman and Chair?

Chairman as a noun is a person presiding over a meeting. while 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.

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: If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

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: America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

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

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