Unchair
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unchair is a verb meaning (figurative, transitive) To take away someone's status and authority, especially if that status and authority is represented by a chair such as a throne or an academic chair; unseat.
Meaning
(figurative, transitive) To take away someone's status and authority, especially if that status and authority is represented by a chair such as a throne or an academic chair; unseat.
More Meanings
- (rare, ambitransitive) To get out of or to remove from a chair.
Example Sentences
When I stand up, am I unchaired?
To adjust the back tension required a similar unchairing to get at the knob behind.
The Court included senior judges and tried to have him unchaired by a High Court action which they lost.
How could she restore the faith of the council, or at the very least keep from being unchaired or made a puppet?
Word Forms
- unchairs
- unchairing
- unchaired
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include charette.
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