take the chair Definition

chair
noun

1. A seat for one person, with a back-support and usually four legs.
2. The office of chairman or chairwoman at a meeting, etc, or the person holding this office.
3. A professorship.
(N Amer)
(especially US)
4. colloq
The electric chair as a means of capital punishment.
Form: the chair

verb chaired, chairing

1. To control or conduct (a meeting) as chairman or chairwoman.
(Brit)
2. To lift up and carry (a victor, etc) in triumph.
3. To place someone in a seat of authority.

Idiom: in the chair

Acting as chairman.

Idiom: take the chair

To be chairman or chairwoman.

Etymology: 13: from French chaiere, from Latin cathedra, from Greek kathedra seat.