[
UK
/tʃˈeə/
]
[ US /ˈtʃɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
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a particular seat in an orchestra
he is second chair violin -
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
address your remarks to the chairperson -
a seat for one person, with a support for the back
he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down -
the position of professor
he was awarded an endowed chair in economics -
an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
VERB
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preside over
John moderated the discussion -
act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
She chaired the department for many years
How To Use chair In A Sentence
- Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
- It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
- I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
- A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
- They have provided two chairs in a pool of light. Times, Sunday Times
- When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
- They had to make do with kitchen tuffets, orange boxes, a piano stool and a rocking chair borrowed from next door.
- They may also be friends of the chairman, so they are reluctant to upset the applecart.