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  • noun Plural form of chairman.

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Examples

  • The laid-back Horowitz had left the label chairmen to their jobs and never inserted himself into the one-on-one relationships they had with Ross.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • The laid-back Horowitz had left the label chairmen to their jobs and never inserted himself into the one-on-one relationships they had with Ross.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • The laid-back Horowitz had left the label chairmen to their jobs and never inserted himself into the one-on-one relationships they had with Ross.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • The laid-back Horowitz had left the label chairmen to their jobs and never inserted himself into the one-on-one relationships they had with Ross.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • They now have chairpersons, because the term chairmen is held to be discriminatory against women.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2 1974

  • But one of those chairmen is Lieberman, so even that advantage is uncertain.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010 2010

  • The BBC's report of its survey among Tory Party chairmen is a classic of BBC Bias.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • The BBC's report of its survey among Tory Party chairmen is a classic of BBC Bias.

    Auntie Auntie Shame on You 2005

  • One-term chairmen before Ahrens were, in order first to last, Hollis Lathem, Emily Lemcke and Mike Byrd.

    ajc.com - News cquinn@ajc.com 2010

  • Also, in those days, there were "chairmen" -- affable gentlemen, who would drink anything at anybody's expense, and drink any quantity of it, and never seem to get any fuller.

    John Ingerfield and Other Stories 1893

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