presiding officer

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   the leader of a group meeting

   Broaderleader

   NarrowermoderatorpresidentSpeaker

Questions about presiding officer

What does presiding officer mean?

presiding officer means "the leader of a group meeting".

Is presiding officer a common word?

presiding officer 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.