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Chairman of the board   /tʃˈɛrmən əv ðə bɔrd/   Listen
Chairman of the board

noun
1.
The chairman of the board of directors of a corporation.






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"Chairman of the board" Quotes from Famous Books



... reveals that many persons and bodies have during recent times urged upon the Government the desirability of setting up a Committee or Commission of Inquiry to go into this subject. The appointment of the present Committee, however, arose out of a suggestion forwarded to the Chairman of the Board of Health, under date of the 20th June, 1922, from the Council of the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association. The Board of Health duly considered the representations of the Association and passed a resolution ...
— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health

... not fully worked out our plan, but this is the main idea: the club will be called Cedar Mountain House; it will be managed by five governors—two of them appointed by the men who own the building lease; two of them elected by the people who join; these four to elect a fifth as chairman of the board. ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

... in the tournament ring, and such things—but otherwise he was empty and useless. Then we took the other young noble in hand, and he was the first one's twin, for ignorance and incapacity. I delivered them into the hands of the chairman of the Board with the comfortable consciousness that their cake was dough. They were examined in the previous order ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Chairman of the board" :   business executive, corporate executive



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