Chairmanとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛːmən/
• 韻: -ɛːmən

名詞

chairman (複数形 chairmen)

1. A person presiding over a meeting.
2. The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
   • 2003, Taylor, William L., Wake Island : the Alamo of the Pacific, History Channel, OCLC 657633638:

     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.

3. (historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 618:

     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 […]

   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:

     Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.

使用する際の注意点

• Historically this term denoted a man, but it is now also used for women. Gender-neutral terms could be chairperson or just chair.

等位語

• chairwoman

上位語

• chair, chairperson
• presiding officer, presider

派生語