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vice chair

vice chair

10 3.5
A person who helps lead a group and fills in for the chair when needed
  • noun
  • /vaɪs tʃɛr/
translation icon : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Megyn Kelly

  • Alongside my day job, I'm the Vice Chair of Parley Able with Anne as the chair.

    UK Parliament

  • 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

deputy
vsvice chair
658 3.4

A person who acts for a leader when they are absent

implies a fixed rank immediately below the chair rather than only substitution
vice chairman
vsvice chair
16 3.5

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

is gender neutral rather than specifically male
vice chairwoman
vsvice chair
1 5.1

A woman who is second in charge to the chair and leads when the chair is absent

is gender neutral rather than specifically female
vice chairperson
vsvice chair
4.3

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

is a shorter less formal label for the same official role
subchief
vsvice chair
6.2

A person with a rank just below the main leader in a group

also serves as the leader's substitute rather than only holding rank

How Senior

chair
258 3.1
vice chair
10 3.5
member
∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

vice chair singular
vice chairs plural

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.