chairman of the board

1. 1.

   the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation

   Broadercorporate executive

Questions about chairman of the board

What does chairman of the board mean?

chairman of the board means "the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation".

Is chairman of the board a common word?

chairman of the board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.