Chairman vs. Speaker — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chairman and Speaker
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Chairman
The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.
Speaker
One who speaks.
Chairman
The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college.
Speaker
A spokesperson.
Chairman
To act as chairman of
Chaired the panel of experts.
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Speaker
One who delivers a public speech.
Chairman
A person presiding over a meeting.
Speaker
Often Speaker The presiding officer of a legislative assembly.
Chairman
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
Speaker
The person, sometimes the actual writer but often an assumed character, who is imagined as the source of the words or ideas expressed in a poem.
Chairman
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
Speaker
A device that converts electric signals to audible sound.
Chairman
To serve as chairman.
Speaker
One who speaks.
There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
Speaker
Loudspeaker.
She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
Chairman
One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.
Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses.
Speaker
Speakerphone.
Chairman
The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;
Address your remarks to the chairperson
Speaker
(politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chairman
Act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;
She chaired the department for many years
Speaker
One who makes a speech to an audience.
The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
Speaker
(US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
Speaker
The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
Speaker
(poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
Speaker
(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
Speaker
One who speaks.
Speaker
A book of selections for declamation.
Speaker
Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous);
The speaker at commencement
An utterer of useful maxims
Speaker
Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
Speaker
The presiding officer of a deliberative assembly;
The leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives
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