What is the derivation of the word "chairman?"?

Answer 1

A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body.

The use of the gender-neutral term Chairperson, or simply Chair, to avoid potential sexist assumptions with use of the term Chairman has been championed by social change since the late 1970s (See Sapir–Whorf hypothesis). If female, the incumbent may be addressed as "Madam Chairman"; the gender neutral title of "Chairperson" is sometimes used.

The use of the term Chairman remains widespread: for example, the overwhelming majority of the (FTSE 100) companies in the United Kingdom have a "Chairman" and the boards of most Fortune 500 companies in the United States are also presided over by a Chairman.

The use of chair (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) as a verb (e.g.,"to chair [a meeting]" to describe being in charge of a meeting) dates from as early as 1658.

Answer 2

There were so many people involved only the main person in charge got to sit on a chair, everyone else stood or sat on the floor.
He is the one at the head of the organisation, head of the table, in THE Chair.

Answer 3

Chairperson.....

Good Luck.

Answer 4

the guy who gets the biggest comfiest most expensive chair in the company

Answer 5

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