ALL meanings of chaired
chair
C c - noun chaired See chairperson. 1
- noun chaired a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms. 1
- noun chaired something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion. 1
- noun chaired a seat of office or authority. 1
- noun chaired a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc. 1
- noun chaired the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting: The speaker addressed the chair. 1
- noun chaired (in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: first clarinet chair. 1
- noun chaired the chair, Informal. electric chair. 1
- abbreviation CHAIRED chairlift. 1
- noun chaired sedan chair. 1
- noun chaired (in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation. 1
- noun chaired a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass. 1
- noun chaired British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like. 1
- verb with object chaired to place or seat in a chair. 1
- verb with object chaired to install in office. 1
- verb with object chaired to preside over; act as chairperson of: to chair a committee. 1
- verb with object chaired British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph. 1
- verb without object chaired to preside over a meeting, committee, etc. 1
- idioms chaired get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair. 1
- idioms chaired take the chair, to begin or open a meeting. to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson. 1
- noun chaired Simple past tense and past participle of chair. 1