chairman of the board
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛrˌmæn əv ðə bɔrd/
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presidente del consejo de administración
- As the chairman of the board, I would like to say at the outset...
- CEO and chairman of the board
- chairman of the board of trustees
- former chairman of the board
And her cousin John was chairman of the board, CEO of the company.
- And her cousin John was chairman of the board, CEO of the company.
- And I said, well, I'm the chairman of the board of the Church of Sign.
- Jim Gaither, who was chairman of the board of Stanford, by the way, at one point was and now a partner of Sutter Hill.
- all white boardroom of the advertising agency and the chairman of the board has a cardiac arrest and dies like on the table.
- I had, you know, great writers, worked with the chairman of the board, Pantheon, you know, for many years, you know, let's do it.
Examples
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George Norcross was the chairman of the board, is the chairman of the board of Cooper University Hospital.
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My name is Lupita Sanchez Gornejo and I'm the Chairman of the Board of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.
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Get ready to meet the chairman of the board.
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You still want to be chairman of the board.
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The chairman of the board, ladies and gentlemen.
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Prior to becoming chairman of the board, he served as president and chief executive officer.
Blog text (7) -
Michael also served as chairman of the board of the Cable Center from 2007 through 2011.
Blog text (22) -
Herman Badillo is the former chairman of the board of trustees of the City University of New York.
Academic text (2001) -
On our call today, we have Mike O'Neill, chairman of the board of Citigroup, and our new CEO, Corbett.
Blog text (17) -
As the chairman of the board, I would like to say at the outset that our company is performing well.
Synonyms
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3.2
A person who leads meetings of a board or committee
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3.1
A person who leads a meeting or committee
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3.2
A woman who leads a meeting, committee, or organization
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3.5
A person who leads a meeting, committee, or organization
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'chairman' denotes a person who leads meetings and 'board' denotes a governing committee, with 'of the' linking the leader to that committee, so the phrase straightforwardly means the leader of the board. This structure is common across languages and follows normal noun + of + noun possession/association patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Chairman of the board comes from meetings where the leader sat in the chair at the head of the board, the long table used by the directors, so the phrase came to mean 'the person who leads the board'.