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Noun
- //the chairman of the airline company
- //the chairman called the meeting to order
chairman
noun
Synonyms
- a person in charge of a meeting //the chairman called the meeting to orderSynonyms
chaperone
variants: or less commonly chaperon
Definition (Entry 1 of 2)
- : a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety sense 2) accompanies one or more young unmarried women in public or in mixed company
- : an older person who accompanies young people at a social gathering to ensure proper behaviorbroadly : one delegated to ensure proper behavior //I was a chaperone on one of my son's class trips.
- : any of a class of proteins (such as heat shock proteins) that facilitate the proper folding of proteins by binding to and stabilizing unfolded or partially folded proteins
— called also molecular chaperone