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Chairperson vs Dean - What's the difference?

chairperson | dean |

As nouns the difference between chairperson and dean

is that chairperson is a chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc while dean is dean.

As a verb dean is

do.

chairperson

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • a chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
    • She was the chairperson of the board and she presided over the meeting .

    Usage notes

    In modern usage, terms like (chair), (moderator), (coordinator), (presiding) (officer), (group) (leader), (head), (facilitator), and so forth, are often preferred.

    Synonyms

    * chair * presiding officer, presider

    dean

    English

    (wikipedia dean)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science'') or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the ''dean of students ).
  • A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canon.
  • The senior member of some group of people.
    • dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
    dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 67:
    • All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean , Alice Hart, collected
  • (Sussex) a hill (chiefly place names).

    • Related terms

    * decanal

    Derived terms

    * dean and chapter * deaness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve as a dean.
  • To send (a student) to see the dean of a university.

    • Anagrams

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