chairman

noun, plural chair·men.

1. the presiding officer of a meeting, committee, board, etc.
2. the administrative head of a department in a high school, college, or university.
3. someone employed to carry or wheel a person in a chair.

verb (used with object), chair·maned or chair·manned, chair·man·ing or chair·man·ning.

4. to act as or be chairman of (a meeting, committee, etc.).

noun plural -men

1. Also called: chairperson, (fem) chairwoman a person who presides over a company’s board of directors, a committee, a debate, an administrative department, etc
2. history someone who carries a sedan chair