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captain's chair
noun
- a chair having a rounded back formed by a heavy rail resting upon vertical spindles and coming forward to form the arms.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of captain's chair1
Example Sentences
The moment prime ministers take their seat in the captainās chair, time is running out.
We hear about who served under whom, granting legitimacy to the likes of, say, Christopher Pike to claim the captain's chair long before Anson Mount made us ecstatic to see that happen.
From the captainās chair, Axelsson can see more than a dozen computer screens, about half of which help the crew find and catch fish.
Nyota Uhura in the original show and in six movies; the captainās chair from the bridge of a āStar Trekā set; a Darth Vader helmet from āThe Empire Strikes Backā; the Wicked Witch of the Westās hat from the 1939 āThe Wizard of Ozā film; and a full alien creature suit from the 1979 film āAlien.ā
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has acknowledged that the carrier's pilots are shunning promotion to the captain's chair, hurting its flight capacity in the fourth quarter, confirming what Reuters reported earlier this week.
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