🤝 A joint leader 🤝 To lead together

co-chair

3.5

A person who shares the job of leading a committee or meeting with another person

noun
/ˈkoʊˌtʃɛr/

: co-presidente

As the co-chair of the committee, she worked closely with her colleague to organize the annual event.

And I want to particularly thank our magnificent Campaign Co chairs, Sid Knopfel and Susan Wallach.

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Examples

And he speaks and he knew, he knew that this Indiana Congresswoman, Jackie Walorski, was a Republican, was the Co chair of the House Hunger Caucus, all right.
And they have to make sure before they put the mayor in the position of announcing that, that the Co chairs will be able to work together.
You may not notice about me, but in my field I was the head, I was the Co chair of the death panel.

Lex Fridman
Well, I've now been in that Co chair position for five years.
OK, Happened to be Co chair of my daughter's PTO.
It's my special privilege to introduce to some and present to others our University Campaign Co Chair, Jim Rothenberg.
So which I'm the the Co chair is a civic innovation accelerator.
And then this past year when she was a Co chair, she asked John Galliano to design AA look, which was an homage to the Catholic Church.

Vogue
He well, I, I succeeded him as as Co chair with Rose Friedman of the of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.
During the meeting, the co-chair addressed the group's concerns regarding the new policy proposals.

Synonyms

cochair

vsco-chair

1 3.9

A person who shares leading a committee with someone else

is written with a hyphen while meaning stays identical

co-chairman

vsco-chair

1 3.7

A person who shares the job of leading a group or committee

uses a neutral title instead of a male-specific one when sharing duties

cohead

vsco-chair

5.6

A person who shares the leadership of a group or department

is specific to presiding over a committee rather than leading broadly

co-leader

vsco-chair

3.7

Working together with another person to lead a group

is tied to officially presiding in meetings rather than general shared leadership

Surface Forms

co-chair singular

co-chairs plural

Morphology

co-chair = chair (transparent) = co + chair

The meaning is directly derived from 'chair' with the prefix 'co-' indicating a shared role.

Etymology

Co-chair combines the prefix co- meaning 'together' and chair, the person who leads a meeting and who sits in the chair. So a co-chair is someone who shares the 'chair' and the leadership with another person.