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An example use of chair in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… a small desk no chair he used to …”
A chair is a piece of furniture with a flat surface supported by legs, on which one or more persons may sit.
the word chair occurs in english on average 54.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that chair can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) transport and travel;