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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spokeswoman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
▪ Last year, according to a company spokeswoman, it processed more than 800 tons in change.
▪ A company spokeswoman says that Messrs.
department
▪ A prison department spokeswoman was unable to confirm whether anyone had been hurt.
▪ A State Department spokeswoman says there is no need to worry.
▪ Friday, Corrections Department spokeswoman Gloria Isaac said the agency had agreed to cover the costs.
health
▪ South Tees workplace health spokeswoman Anne Newnam said the charter aimed to reduce the death rates from coronary heart disease.
hospital
▪ The deal is expected to be completed Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
▪ The man was taken into surgery, and a hospital spokeswoman said he is recovering and in stable condition.
▪ A hospital spokeswoman, Aggie Hayner, refused to confirm the births, as did a nursing supervisor.
▪ She was later released from the hospital and is making good progress recovering at home, a hospital spokeswoman said.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Last year, according to a company spokeswoman, it processed more than 800 tons in change.
▪ When he was in public school, according to Stanford spokeswoman Janet Basu, Zare kept correcting a mistake-prone teacher.
▪ The increase was the largest quarterly earnings jump in Citizens' 125-year history, according to a bank spokeswoman.
say
▪ The recent violations may not force the closure, said bureau spokeswoman Lynette Wirth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
businesswoman/spokeswoman etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a hospital spokeswoman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also not involved is the Bay Area Urban League, a spokeswoman said.
Wiktionary
spokeswoman

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

WordNet
spokeswoman

n. a female spokesperson

Usage examples of "spokeswoman".

I could become a spokeswoman for every woman who had ever been wronged.

The Israeli Air Force spokeswoman said an American fighter-bomber had downed the planes.

A Finnish government spokeswoman gave a news conference, declaring that it was the worst incident of its type their country had witnessed since the 1950s, but declining to confirm whether it was a ROC shooting, and stressing there was no connection with, or risk to, the EU conference.

After all, who could be better to serve as spokeswoman to a batch of primitive, isolationist religious fanatics than another primitive religious fanatic?

Feet stomp and calumnies fly while the screen blinks back and forth between a droning newscaster and a tampon spokeswoman doing splits on the beach and sliding down banisters.

She was the unofficial spokeswoman and captain of the New Bedford girls, twenty years old, her face less pretty than strongly beautiful, with its close, secretive mouth.

I had become a United Nations spokeswoman on the subject, but every time I spoke it brought back painful emotional and physical memories.

Rosemary Keenan, meanwhile, the network spokeswoman, was quoted as saying it was the Letterman producers who made the call.

Stavely, or a spokeswoman for an industry which is so obsessed with profit that it regularly kills people or mutilates them, using drugs it knows in advance to be unsafe?

Unconscious spokeswoman for the ninety-nine hundredths of the human race!

A spokeswoman from a neighbourhood watch group came on an afternoon phone-in and told the story of how a gang of youths had leapt over fences from garden to garden down her street jumping higher and faster than she thought possible.

Etta Rosado, spokeswoman for the Volusia County Department of Elections, said the county essentially accepted the file at face value, did nothing to confirm the accuracy of it and doesn’t inform citizens ahead of time that they have been dropped from the voter rolls.