English
Etymology
chair + person, after chairman and chairwoman
Noun
chairperson (plural chairpersons or chairpeople)
- A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
- She was the chairperson of the board and she presided over the meeting.
Usage notes
In modern usage, terms like chair, moderator, coordinator, presiding officer, group leader, head, facilitator, and so forth, are often more common.
Synonyms
Translations
a person who presides over a meeting, a board
- Afrikaans: voorsitter (af)
- Albanian: kryetar (sq) m, kryetare (sq) f
- Arabic: رَئِيس m (raʔīs), صَدْر (ar) m (ṣadr)
- Armenian: նախագահ (hy) (naxagah)
- Azerbaijani: sədr
- Belarusian: старшыня́ m (staršynjá)
- Bengali: সভাপতি (śobhapoti), সভানেত্রী (śobhanetri)
- Bulgarian: председа́тел m (predsedátel)
- Burmese: သဘာပတိ (my) (sa.bhapa.ti.), ဥက္ကဌ (ukka.hta.)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 主席 (zyu2 zik6), 議長/议长 (ji5 zoeng2), 议长 (ji5 zoeng2)
- Dungan: җўщи (žwxi)
- Mandarin: 主席 (zh) (zhǔxí), 議長/议长 (zh) (yìzhǎng), 议长 (zh) (yìzhǎng)
- Czech: předseda (cs) m, předsedkyně (cs) f
- Danish: formand c
- Dutch: voorzitter (nl) m, voorzitster (nl) f
- Esperanto: prezidanto, prezidantino (female)
- Estonian: eesistuja, esimees (et)
- Finnish: puheenjohtaja (fi)
- French: secrétaire général (fr) m, secrétaire générale (fr) f, président (fr) m, présidente (fr) f
- Georgian: თავმჯდომარე (tavmǯdomare)
- German: Vorsitzender (de) m, Vorsitzende (de) f
- Greek: πρόεδρος (el) m or f (próedros)
- Hebrew: יושב ראש m (yoshév rosh)
- Hindi: अध्यक्ष (hi) m (adhyakṣ), अध्यक्षा f (adhyakṣā), सभापति (hi) m (sabhāpti), सभाध्यक्ष m (sabhādhyakṣ)
- Hungarian: elnök (hu)
- Icelandic: formaður m
- Ido: prezidanto (io), prezidantulo (male), prezidantino (female)
- Interlingua: presidente, chairman
- Irish: cathaoirleach m
- Italian: presidente (it) m, presidentessa (it) f, capo (it) m
- Japanese: 議長 (ja) (ぎちょう, gichō), 委員長 (ja) (いいんちょう, iinchō)
- Kazakh: басқарма (basqarma), төраға (törağa), басқарушы (basqaruşy)
- Khmer: ប្រធាន (km) (prɑthiən)
- Korean: 의장 (ko) (uijang), 위원장 (ko) (wiwonjang)
- Kyrgyz: башкарма (ky) (başkarma), төр ага (tör aga), председатель (predsedatel)
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- Lao: ປະທານ (pa thān)
- Latvian: priekšsēdētājs m
- Lithuanian: pirmininkas m, pirmininkė f
- Macedonian: претседател m (pretsedatel), претседавач m (pretsedavač)
- Maltese: ċermen m
- Maori: heamana
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: styreformann m, møteleder m, leder (no) m, formann (no) m
- Nynorsk: styreformann m, møteleiar m, leiar m, formann m
- Pashto: ریيس m (rayís), صدر (ps) m (sádǝr)
- Persian: رئیس (fa) (ra'is), صدر (fa) (sadr)
- Polish: przewodniczący (pl) m pers, przewodnicząca (pl) f
- Portuguese: presidente (pt) (da assembleia)
- Romanian: președinte (ro) m, președintă (ro) f
- Russian: председа́тель (ru) m (predsedátelʹ), председа́тельница (ru) f (predsedátelʹnica)
- Sanskrit: सभापति (sa) m (sabhāpati), प्रधान (sa) m (pradhāna), अध्यक्ष (sa) m (adhyakṣa)
- Scottish Gaelic: neach-na-cathrach m or f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: председавајући m
- Roman: predsedavajući m
- Sindhi: نِشِستمان (sd)
- Slovak: predseda m, predsedníčka f
- Slovene: predsedujoči m, predsedujoča f
- Sotho: modulasetulo
- Spanish: presidente (es) m, presidenta (es) f
- Swahili: mwenyekiti (sw)
- Swedish: ordförande (sv) c, styrelseordförande (sv) c (board)
- Tajik: раис (rayis), садр (sadr)
- Thai: ประธาน (th) (bprà-taan)
- Turkish: başkan (tr), reis (tr)
- Turkmen: başlyk (tk)
- Ukrainian: голова́ (uk) m (holová)
- Urdu: صدر m (sadr)
- Uyghur: رەئىس (re'is)
- Uzbek: rais (uz), sadr (uz)
- Vietnamese: chủ tịch (vi)
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