Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office or term of a chairman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a chairman or presiding officer, as of a committee or board; the performance of the duties of a chairman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office, or the term of a
chairman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of chairman
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Examples
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A top aide to Kaine said he had not heard the Gibbs rumor and pointed out that while Kaine serves at the pleasure of Obama, the chairmanship is a four-year term that expires after the 2012 election.
Gibbs unlikely to become DNC chair, White House says Philip Rucker 2010
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December 22nd, 2009 1: 26 pm ET several former Republican Party chairmen are quoted in the article criticizing Steele, saying the chairmanship is a full time job in itself.
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Also, on the Lieberman thing, it seems to me that losing a chairmanship is a rare thing in Congress in general, but even rarer in the Senate, absent an indictment or something.
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Paramount to my chairmanship is the integrity and success of the NRCC.
Specifics Released On NRCC Accounting Irregularities - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008
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Why Reid lets him retain his chairmanship is beyond me. dlforlife
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Genachowski's entire chairmanship is wrapped up in the (FCC's new) National Broadband Plan and implementing it.
Court decision could lead to a broadband broadside at the FCC 2010
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I think the underlying assumption in your example of the chairmanship is that the incumbent is non-anonymous when they return to the community and hence can be punished ( "answer for our choices") by the group.
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Bernanke's chairmanship is slated to end next January. '
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Taking away the chairmanship is not about vindictiveness or retribution.
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Huh? The DNC chairmanship is an elected position, not an appointment.
Obama keeps Dean 2008
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