chair /chār/

1. A movable seat for one person, with a back, usu four legs, and sometimes arms
2. A sedan chair (historical)
3. The seat or office of someone in authority, eg a judge, a bishop, or the person presiding over any meeting
4. A chairperson
5. Orig the seat from which a professor delivered his or her lectures
6. A professorship
7. The instrument or the punishment of death by electrocution (informal; with the)
8. A support for a railway rail securing it to a sleeper

1. To conduct (a meeting, etc) as chairperson
2. To carry publicly in triumph
3. To place in a seat of authority

chairˈ-bed noun

A chair capable of being turned into a bed

chairˈborne adjective (informal)

Working at a desk

chairˈbound adjective

1. Unable to walk
2. Confined to a wheelchair

chairˈdays plural noun (Shakespeare; figurative)

The evening of life

chairˈlift noun

A set of seats suspended from cables used to carry skiers, etc uphill

chairˈman noun

1. A person (male or female) who takes the chair, or presides at an assembly or meeting (also chairˈperson; fem chairˈwoman)
2. A sedan-bearer (historical)

chairˈmanship noun

chairˈ-organ noun

A choir organ (perhaps because it sometimes formed the back of the organist's seat)

chairperson, chairwoman see under chairman above.

in the chair

Acting as the chairperson of a meeting

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• your ladyship
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• Your Reverence
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• yours sincerely
• yours to command
• yours truly
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• you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
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