chairmanlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a chairman.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivechairmanlike (comparative more chairmanlike, superlative most chairmanlike)

comparative more chairmanlike · superlative most chairmanlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chairman.
    1 more example

    Agents at both companies have been eager to hear details of a governance plan that many believe would put Mr. Wiatt in a chairmanlike position, leaving Mr. Emanuel, perhaps still without a title, with operating control of a company that presumably would have far fewer than the 1,000 or so employees currently working for the two combined.

    2009 March 11, Brooks Barnes, “William Morris and Endeavor Explore a Merger”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥-th₂der.?
  4. Proto-Hellenic*kətá
  5. Ancient Greekκατά (katá)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sed-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sedreh₂
  8. Proto-Hellenic*hédrā
  9. Ancient Greekἕδρα (hédra)
  10. Ancient Greekκᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)
  11. Latincathedra
  12. Old Frenchchaiere
  13. Middle Englishchayere
  14. Englishchair
  15. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  16. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  17. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  18. Old Englishmann
  19. Middle Englishman
  20. Englishchairman
  21. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  22. Proto-Germanic*līką
  23. Englishchairmanlike

From chairman + -like.

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Chicago

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