chmn.

Noun

chairman (plural chairmen)

1. A person presiding over a meeting, sometimes especially a man. (Compare chairwoman, chairperson, chair.)
2. The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
   • When I got ready to leave, why, Chairman Mao came down to the plane. Chairman Mao gave me some Chinese rugs and told me that I was the only prisoner of war that had ever come through there from North China.2003, William L. Taylor, Wake Island : the Alamo of the Pacific, History Channel, →OCLC
3. (historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
   • Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire […]1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 618

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