chapter
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- noun
- /ˈtʃæptər/
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- Bill is the past president of the Adams County Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association.
- a local chapter
- a collegiate chapter
- chapter members
And so I'm going to be starting local chapters nationwide.
- And so I'm going to be starting local chapters nationwide.
- So let's say you have your Black Lives Matter chapter and you're doing things the good way.
- I remember Occupy Wall Street, New York chapter, the People's Library at Zuccotti Park.
- But we've lived that way with our mouths outside of the, you know, the chapter office or whatever.
- You can also join obviously just social groups, look for organizational chapters.
- She Co founded the San Diego chapter of AFSP my hometown San Diego.
- I mean, it's, you know, Goldwater's wife was a Co founder of one of the chapters of Planned Parenthood.
- And my wild dream would be that one day we would have not only a chapter of the foundation in each state, but ultimately in each country.
Examples
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Let the record indicate that Mr. Hampton is head of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party.
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The second case involved Arnold Via, the director of the Virginia Chapter of American Atheists.
Academic text (2015) -
Yeah, they seem to be a very active chapter compared to some of the others.
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So I had to go and apologize to their whole chapter Sunday night.
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Now we have a chapter in Morocco, and we were planning to expand.
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And so I'm going to be starting local chapters nationwide.
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The society currently has more than 550 active chapters, mostly in the US.
Academic text (2012) -
Both are members of larger organizations that have local chapters here in Milwaukee.
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After she gathered some background information, she contacted the local chapter of the Gay-Straight Alliance.
Academic text (2013) -
Bill is the past president of the Adams County chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association.
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Etymology
Chapter comes from the Latin capitulum, meaning 'little head', and it came to mean a 'section' of a larger group. That is why each local branch of an organization is called a 'chapter'.