vice chair
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3.5
- noun
- /vaɪs tʃɛr/
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vicepresidente
- Corporate Award: Harry J. Pearce, vice chair of General Motors Corp., Detroit.
- serve as vice chair
- vice chair of the committee
And Hogan Gidley, former Trump national press secretary and vice chair of the Center for Election Integrity.
- And Hogan Gidley, former Trump national press secretary and vice chair of the Center for Election Integrity.
- Alongside my day job, I'm the Vice Chair of Parley Able with Anne as the chair.
Examples
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Melanie Henwood is an independent health and social care consultant and vice chair of the GSCC.
Academic text (2009) -
And Hogan Gidley, former Trump national press secretary and vice chair of the Center for Election Integrity.
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Alongside my day job, I'm the Vice Chair of Parley Able with Anne as the chair.
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Last year at this conference, our executive vice president and vice chair, Ron Mitsch, talked to you about innovation.
Academic text (1996) -
As vice-chair for the board, I guess I'll have to run this meeting until a new chairperson is elected.
Fiction book (2001) -
Williams, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, was quoted.
Blog text (2) -
At Johns Hopkins, he serves as vice chair of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics.
Academic text (2003) -
Harkey currently serves as vice-chair of both the Assembly Committee on Appropriations and the Revenue and Taxation Committee.
Blog text (24) -
Carol F. Burger, a member of Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin in New York City, is a vice chair of the Professional Services Committee in the Taxation Section.
Academic text (2004) -
Michael Blake serves as the vice chair of the National Democratic Committee and often represents the chairperson at events.
Synonyms
658
3.4
A person who acts for a leader when they are absent
16
3.5
A person who helps the chair of a board and stands in when needed
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5.1
A woman who is second in charge to the chair and leads when the chair is absent
A person who helps the chairperson and takes charge when they are absent
A person with a rank just below the main leader in a group
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
vice + chair
The meaning 'person who ranks immediately below the chairperson and may serve in their place' follows directly from combining 'vice' (deputy, in place of) with 'chair' (the committee chairperson). The prefix 'vice-' is a productive, familiar morpheme in compounds (e.g. vice-president) and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would readily infer this MWE.
Etymology
The title vice chair comes from the old use of vice meaning 'in place of' and chair for the meeting leader, so it creates the image of someone who stands in for the chair and takes over when needed.