Collocations for "chair"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "chair" in context.
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chair
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [rocking, folding, revolving, swivel, comfortable, deck] chair
- a [dining, dining-room, baby, child's, high] chair
- an [office, easy, upholstered, adjustable] chair
- an extra chair for
- sitting in a chair
- sat (down) [on, his] her chair
- (nearly) fell off his chair
- was leaning back [on, in] his chair
- saved you a chair
- pull [over, up] a chair
- offered him a chair
- use a chair to reach [a book, the furniture tops]
- [find, fetch] a chair to sit on
- don't lean back on your chair
- don’t tip your chair back
- a chair at my table
- play musical chairs
- in the [barber's, dentist's, psychiatrist's] chair
- was carried [in, on] a sedan chair
- rode in a sedan chair
- was sentenced to the electric chair
- the [committee, university, department] chair
- is the chair of the [board, committee, council]
- the chair of the board of [directors, governors, investigation]
- the [vice, former, current, deputy] chair
- [addressed, consulted] the chair
- chair the [meeting, committee, event, organization]
- has been chosen to chair the [meeting]
- was chaired by
- chaired through the [crowd, guests, dancefloor]
'chair' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accustomed
- ample
- angle
- arise
- arm
- ash
- backed
- backward
- balcony
- board
- bring
- build
- butt
- cane
- collapse
- comfortable
- committee
- council
- cover
- cozy
- crimson
- crumb
- cumbersome
- cushion
- death
- dentist
- department
- desk
- director
- dizzy
- dragonfly
- drape
- ease
- edge
- elbow
- emergency
- execute
- execution
- executive
- expert
- fall
- fidget
- finish
- fir
- firmly
- flat
- flop
- fold
- frenzy
- fur