[f. prec. + -SHIP.]
1. The office of chairman or president of a meeting, a company, corporate body, etc.
1847. Fraser’s Mag., XXXVI. 224. Elevation to the chairmanship of the Great Western.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., 72. The retirement of Mr. Sumner from the chairmanship.
2. The action of presiding as chairman; performance of a chairman’s duty.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 142. A philanthropic peer, always … to the fore with his chairmanship.
1864. Realm, 1 June, 1. A body of gentlemen sat down to dinner, under the sympathetic chairmanship of Lord Houghton.
