You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for October 23.

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Today’s word is chair, spelled c-h-a-i-r.

chair / tʃeə $ tʃer/ noun

the position of being a university professor

holds a university chair

a new Chair of Medicine

[singular] the position of being in charge of a meeting or committee, or the person who is in charge of it

He was appointed chair of the committee.

He was nominated as chair of the board of governors.

He is now chair of the English department.

She's chair of the school board this year.

Address any questions to the committee chair.

Moore, a longtime federal prosecutor and former chair of the Justice Department’s U.S. Marshals Service, was appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.

— Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021

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