Definition of "chairman of the board" []

• The chairman of the board of directors of a corporation (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Tillman refused to be introduced to me because I was chairman of the board of directors of the New York Central Railroad, and he hated my associations and associates."
• "While Burdick himself was cooling his heels with the second-in-command of the company, Steve Nordstrom, Simms had been meeting with Gliddick, the chairman of the board and CEO of McMillan."
• "As he started the car, I paged through the rest of the report, starting at the back and ending at the list of directors at the front, and there I found several familiar, local names, including my dear old trustee Jack Fenton, who was also the chairman of the board of First City Bank, and Samuel Hayes, Jr., publisher of The Port Frederick Times newspaper."