Usually means: Led or presided over meeting.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaired: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaired: Collins English Dictionary
  3. chaired: Vocabulary.com
  4. Chaired, chaired: Wordnik
  5. chaired: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. chaired: Wiktionary
  7. Chaired, chaired: Dictionary.com
  8. chaired: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Chaired: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Chaired: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. chaired: FreeDictionary.org
  12. chaired: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaired: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaired: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaired: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaired: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaired: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chair as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chair)

noun:  An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
noun:  (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
noun:  (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
noun:  (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
noun:  (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
noun:  (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
noun:  A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
noun:  The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
noun:  An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
verb:  (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
verb:  (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
verb:  (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
noun:  (often with definite article) Chairperson.
noun:  (fandom slang) The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.
noun:  (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson. [A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.]
noun:  (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”). [A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.]
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