Chairman vs Kingpin - What's the difference?
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A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 618:
* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?
(motorized vehicles) The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.
The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.
The most important person in an undertaking or organization.
The bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard.
Chairman is a related term of kingpin.
As nouns the difference between chairman and kingpin
is that chairman is a person (implied male) presiding over a meeting while kingpin is (motorized vehicles) the axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.chairman
English
(wikipedia chairman)Noun
(chairmen)- Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen ; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire [...]
- Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.