chairing

Verb

chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)

1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
   • Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
   • The time you won your town the race
     We chaired you through the marketplace.1896, A. E. Houseman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad
3. (UK, Wales, transitive) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
   • The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

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