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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spokesman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ The role of defending the Church was assumed by the lower clergy, their chief spokesman being Francis Atterbury.
▪ The chief spokesman for the men pushes papers around irritably and kicks at a chair.
▪ Mr. Waldegrave I am sorry that the Labour party's chief spokesman on health did not rise to respond to these matters.
▪ Mr Kaufman, Labour's chief foreign affairs spokesman, sat at his bench shaking his head.
▪ The chief spokesman of the strikers was Costica Dobre.
▪ I hope that the Opposition chief spokesman on health matters will withdraw this similar threat today.
▪ Joan Waters was included in it and acted as chief spokesman.
labour
▪ Successive Labour spokesmen tried to establish that the Thatcher Government did not have its heart in the health service.
▪ Ministry of Labour spokesman Avar Arpad said evaluation would take two weeks and that no information would be given in the interim.
▪ That is why we enjoy higher inward investment compared with those two countries. Labour Front-Bench spokesmen think that that is amusing.
▪ The dark suits of the Labour Front-Bench spokesmen betray those who have turned their coats.
▪ John Reid, a Labour defence spokesman, denounced it as disgusting.
soviet
▪ It was the official estimate from the Soviet spokesman at the international conference at Vienna this year.
▪ By mid 1972 Soviet spokesmen adopted a more conciliatory tone.
▪ A Soviet presidential spokesman said on Nov. 6 that the decision could have no legal force as it was a unilateral measure.
white
▪ Mike McCurry, the White House spokesman, said the first planeload of detection equipment already was on its way.
▪ Mike McCurry, the White House spokesman, confirmed the campaign will air its first commercial beginning Friday.
▪ A White House spokesman said Herman mistakenly thought the coffee was an official, nonpolitical meeting.
■ NOUN
company
▪ A company spokesman said yesterday it was not yet clear how many workers could be redeployed elsewhere in the group.
▪ About 1, 000 people were hired in November, a company spokesman said.
▪ A company spokesman said last night that Salomon had acted in response to payments being made by other institutions.
▪ That's about a third larger than the 25,000 square feet at the average Office Depot, according to a company spokesman.
▪ Drug company spokesmen called this a repudiation of the critics, or at least a failure to agree with them.
▪ As with Alcatel Alsthom, the company faces new realities in a changing market, the company spokesman said.
▪ He succeeds Ray Nakano, 49, who left the company several months ago for personal reasons, a company spokesman said.
department
▪ But the department spokesman said the money should come from a community care grant to local authorities for the mentally ill.
▪ Insurance Department spokesman John Calagna said the Hancock violations occurred between 1983 and 1994.
▪ A Justice Department spokesman said Tuesday he could not discuss the subject.
▪ Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller said the government is reviewing the ruling and hasn't decided whether to appeal.
▪ A State Department spokesman, also displaying a talent for diplomacy, declined to characterize the appointment as a promotion.
house
▪ White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the two men talked for about five minutes.
▪ A White House spokesman said Herman mistakenly thought the coffee was an official, nonpolitical meeting.
industry
▪ No other trade association is subject to such stringent rules, a tobacco industry spokesman said.
▪ It had been thought that Mr Prescott would replace Bryan Gould, the trade and industry spokesman.
office
▪ A Foreign Office spokesman said: We always do as much as we can in such circumstances.
▪ A Crown Office spokesman said last night it would be premature to do so at this stage.
■ VERB
accord
▪ He was in his office and did not watch the proceedings on television, according to spokesman Lauren Maddox.
▪ An internal investigation last year failed to turn up the culprit, according to Disneyland spokesman Tom Brocato.
▪ Clinton opposes homosexual marriage, according to White House spokesman Mike McCurry.
▪ That's about a third larger than the 25,000 square feet at the average Office Depot, according to a company spokesman.
▪ Most of those tickets, according to a committee spokesman, were sold for $ 150 each.
▪ Last year, BankAmerica casual dressers raised $ 1. 25 million for charity, according to BankAmerica spokesman Russ Yarrow.
▪ He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers, according to his spokesman Allen Kay.
▪ The speaker does not plan to address the House, according to spokesman Lauren Maddox.
say
▪ Wage restraint, say Conservative Treasury spokesmen, is important to company viability and to controlling inflation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A spokesman for Limited declined to comment, noting that the company had just been served with a copy of the suit.
▪ A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected.
▪ An Alcoa spokesman said costs generally rise when revenue increases.
▪ An investigation of the incidents was opened earlier last month but so far no one has been punished, Marine spokesmen said.
▪ Ask for a copy of the original information so that any spokesman you provide will not have it sprung upon him.
▪ I was glad to meet Alan Savory, the opposition spokesman - a young, cool customer, dark and striking.
▪ This is where Mr Pozsgay's training as the people's spokesman became useful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spokesman

Spokesman \Spokes"man\ (sp[=o]ks"man), n.; pl. Spokesmen (-men). [Speak, spoke + man.] One who speaks for another.

He shall be thy spokesman unto the people.
--Ex. iv. 16.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spokesman

1510s, "an interpreter," 1530s in the sense of "person who speaks for another or others." Irregular formation from spoke, past tense of speak (actually a back-formation from spoken) + man (n.). Perhaps on analogy of craftsman. Spokeswoman is from 1650s; spokesperson is from 1972; spokesmodel is attested from 1990.

Wiktionary
spokesman

n. One who speaks as the voice of a group of people.

WordNet
spokesman

n. a male spokesperson

Usage examples of "spokesman".

An Air Force spokesman said that glowing aerial objects reported over a four-state Western area were astronomical in nature.

Away from the noisy market section of the city, Regis passed the palatial home of Cassius, the spokesman of Bryn Shander.

He focused his attention on the two most powerful spokesmen, Cassius of Bryn Shander and Kemp of Targos, as they sat at the head of the rectangular table and chatted.

But anyone who had ever seen the spokesman from Bryn Shander raise a sword in battle or maneuver his charges on the field had no doubts concerning his fighting prowess or his bravery.

Wilson, several of the more moderate Chicano spokesmen called for a federal investigation.

For example, baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro, who has served a spokesman for Viagra, said that somebody had to come forward to talk about the problem of erectile dysfunction.

I thought the Detaxalans were going to cry by the faces they made, but instead they broke into laughter, such heathenish sounds as had never before been heard on Gola, and I listened in wonder instead of excluding it from my hearing, but the fellows sobered quickly enough at that, and the spokesman addressed the shocked Yabo.

FROM AN ASSOCIATED PREss BULLETIN: Space Agency and UpLink International Pledge to Keep ISS on Track Despite Shuttle Disaster Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral-In a joint statement released late this afternoon through NASA press spokesman Craig Yarborough , agency officials and Roger Gordian, whose firm, UpLink International , is chief contractor of the ISS project, have declared their undivided commitment to resuming assembly of the orbital station as soon as possible.

At length three men were thrust forward, a somewhat ominous trio as it happened, Pitokiti the Unlucky, Hou the Unstable, and Whaka the Bird-of-Ill-Omen, of whom Whaka was the spokesman.

Each is the spokesman of a district, each has a passion for the study of mankind, each has gained by long years of observation a profound knowledge of local human character, and each has plucked on the open moor, and wears in his coat, the hueless flower of disillusion.

At first farmers, ranchers and Landsmen got together to discuss ways of dealing with the Committee, but then Cleon Layner - a leading spokesman - was found beaten to death in an alley behind his home and the meetings ended.

They made a big mistake when they picked as their spokesman a political operative, a slickster who did them a disservice with the decisions he made on their behalf.

A request has been made to Soviet Zonal headquarters at Potsdam for further information about the concentration camp in Riga, Latvia, and a search for further witnesses is under way, the spokesman said.

Me, then edited the footage to make Stecco, an attorney devoted to helping the poor, look like a spokesman for the brainless and wealthy.

UNSA spokesman stated that data collected recently at the Lunar bases, following research at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and the UNSA Mineralogy and Petrology Laboratories, Pasadena, California, indicate that a large-scale nuclear conflict took place on the Moon at the time the Lunarians were there.