cochair

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noun

Someone who serves as the chair of a meeting or organization together with one or more other chairs.

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Meanings

nouncochair (plural cochairs)

plural cochairs

  1. Someone who serves as the chair of a meeting or organization together with one or more other chairs.

    "On the referendum, people are asked to vote yes or no," says Hoyt, who is cochair of the Coalition for Lower Electric Rates[…].

    1988 February 19, Ben Joravsky, “A referendum gorws in the 47th Ward: boosting the current against Com Ed rate hikes”, in Chicago Reader
verbcochair (third-person singular simple present cochairs, present participle cochairing, simple past and past participle cochaired)

present singular third person cochairs · participle present cochairing · participle past cochaired · past cochaired

  1. transitiveTo chair (a meeting) jointly.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Indo-European*ḱm̥-th₂der.?
  10. Proto-Hellenic*kətá
  11. Ancient Greekκατά (katá)
  12. Proto-Indo-European*sed-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*sedreh₂
  14. Proto-Hellenic*hédrā
  15. Ancient Greekἕδρα (hédra)
  16. Ancient Greekκᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)
  17. Latincathedra
  18. Old Frenchchaiere
  19. Middle Englishchayere
  20. Englishchair
  21. Englishcochair

From co- + chair.

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APA

cochair. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cochair

MLA

“cochair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cochair. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cochair,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cochair.

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