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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spokesperson
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ The benefits of the acquisition are feeding through, particularly on the online betting front, says a spokesperson.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A spokesperson for the company read to waiting reporters from a prepared statement.
▪ A government spokesperson has denied the allegations of corruption.
▪ the Labour Party spokesperson on education
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A spokesperson for the band declined to comment on whether Nirvana are concerned about conflict of sales between the two publications.
▪ A chance for you to air your views and put them to a Government spokesperson.
▪ A Locus spokesperson said its goal is 100 percent of the speed - and felt that it could achieve it.
▪ In a sense, even though legislatures usually have spokespersons and leaders, no one can truly speak for the legislature.
▪ In Munich, a spokesperson for Dasa said no deadline has been set for a decision.
Wiktionary
spokesperson

n. Person who acts as the voice of a group of people.

WordNet
spokesperson

n. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" [syn: interpreter, representative, voice]

Wikipedia
Spokesperson

A "spokesman" is someone engaged or elected to speak on behalf of others.

Usage examples of "spokesperson".

He could not deny that he missed the days when he and his crew had been explorers and adventurers, not, as seemed more and more the case, diplomats and spokespeople for the benefits of bigger and better interstellar business opportunities.

Shortly after, human spokespeople began appearing on Earth, on screen and in person, describing the bounty the Frasque had brought to the system, with special mention of their advanced cryonics facilities.

Their best-known spokespeople were removed and replaced abruptly, without explanation, with new ones who smiled constantly while issuing contradictory statements and random exhortations.

The figureheads who came to fill the role of the Great Kings were created as spokespeople, icons, and mouthpieces to imply that the Hansa functioned as a unified collection of powers represented in a single leader.

The response by American military spokespeople was notably unsympathetic.

The spokespeople urged patience, restraint, and promised a zealous investigation of whatever crimes had been committed in the release.

The spokespeople at Loveland say both towns are infested with outlaws and crud and the like.

Kerry, as spokesperson for the WAW, was trumpeting the theme the Communist world wanted heard.

Canyon III permitted Kerry to emerge as the national spokesperson for the WAW, a role that grew out of his visible presence on the stage throughout the event and his televised appearance before the Fulbright Committee on April 22, 1971.

Dewey Canyon III permitted Kerry to emerge as the national spokesperson for the WAW, a role that grew out of his visible presence on the stage throughout the event and his televised appearance before the Fulbright Committee on April 22, 1971.

Evard Nilsson, a spokesperson for the Marburg Institute in Germany, which has been sequencing the entire Neanderthal genome, said the blonde theory was interesting.

This whole scene was strange, but his mother seemed to be the spokesperson here.

Again the elves exchanged glances, and Knucklebones thought a sigh of exasperation escaped the spokesperson, as if dealing with thick-witted humans were a chore.

As the leader of the new mer empire, I humbly acknowledge you as the spokesperson for the Order .

Margaret, the highly animated team spokesperson, suggested that the implementation plan for Choose Your Attitude was a highly personal one.