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vice chairwoman

vice chairwoman

1 5.1
A woman who is second in charge to the chair and leads when the chair is absent
  • noun
  • /ˈvaɪs ˈʧɛrˌwʊmən/
translation icon : vicepresidenta
  • She's currently the vice chairwoman.
  • the vice chairwoman of the board
  • serve as vice chairwoman

Examples

  • Any change now would involve the U Board of Trustees and Michele Mattsson, the board's current vice chairwoman.

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  • It's Wanda Getter Pataki, vice chairwoman of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and a supporter of the incumbent mayor.

  • McMorris Rodgers is currently the vice chairwoman of the group.

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  • Karen Eoff, who also won her District 8 seat outright in the primary, will be the council's vice chairwoman.

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  • Wille will be chairwoman of the Committee on Agriculture, Water and Energy Sustainability, with Poindexter serving as vice chairwoman.

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  • It elected Cynthia Dai as temporary vice chairwoman, a Democrat and chief executive of a San Francisco marketing firm.

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  • It's Wanda Getter Pataki, vice chairwoman of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and a supporter of the incumbent mayor.

  • Dr. Karen L. Bales, the vice chairwoman of psychology at the University of California-Davis, has been studying human bonding behavior and the science behind it using close animal models, such as prairie voles, which are monogamous.

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  • Barbara Brown, the board's vice chairwoman, said she supports the idea of a new community project.

  • McMorris Rodgers has been elected as the vice chairwoman of the organization and will take over in the chair's absence.

Synonyms

vice chairman
vsvice chairwoman
16 3.5

A person who helps the chair of a board and stands in when needed

is the female equivalent indicating a woman deputy rather than a male one
vice chair
vsvice chairwoman
10 3.5

A person who helps lead a group and fills in for the chair when needed

is the female version specifying a woman deputy instead of a neutral one
vice chairperson
vsvice chairwoman
4.3

A person who helps the chairperson and takes charge when they are absent

is the female form specifying a woman rather than a gender-neutral deputy

Surface Forms

vice chairwoman singular
vice chairwomen plural

Morphology

vice + chairwoman

The compound is directly compositional: 'vice' functions as a title-forming element meaning 'deputy' or 'in place of', and 'chairwoman' denotes the female chair, so together they denote the deputy/substitute chair. This title-formation pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. vice-president) and follows ordinary English compounding, so a learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The compound vice chairwoman is made of vice and chairwoman, where vice means 'in place of' and chairwoman is the woman who leads a meeting. So a vice chairwoman is the woman who stands in when the chair is away, that is 'a substitute' or 'second in rank'.