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“Chair” or “Chare”

chair / chare are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

chair ch·EH·r

  • nouna seat for one person, with a support for the back.
  • nouna particular seat in an orchestra.
  • verbact or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university.

chare

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

Usage

Examples in context

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“chair”

  • …Toronto in 2003 as Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer of…
  • He was the technical program chair for the 2016 ACM SIGCHI…
  • …not manage to gain a chair in psychoanalysis at the Hebrew…
  • Jon Day , Lately Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee, Cabinet Office.
  • Mark Harding, the first chair of the GC100, has stated…
  • …was thrown from his deck chair by a sudden wave, and…
  • …they modified a wooden porch chair so that the seat moved…
  • …the first in the USSR Chair of Thoracic Surgery for the…
  • …he forces her into a chair and turns on her TV…
  • David Ronald Norgrove, Chair, Low Pay Commission and Chair,…

“chare”

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