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spokesman

/ˈspoʊksmən/

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What does spokesman mean?

noun

  1. One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈspoʊksmən/

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The "antis" also suffered in this campaign from the "pernicious activity" of their spokesman--a lawyer with an unenviable reputation.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354
Their spokesman, the great learned man, became at last so entangled that there was nothing for him but flight.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
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One of them,--a finely built, active, strong and intelligent fellow,-- who was a sort of king among them, acted as spokesman.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
There were in the party nine men, nearly all belonging to the immediate family of an old man, who acted as spokesman.
William H. (William Henry) GilderSchwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin RecordsProject Gutenberg ebook #6594
Locke, too, became the spokesman of the new questioning spirit, and before the close of the seventeenth century, experimental research became all the mode.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566