Spokesman
['spəʊksmən] or ['spoksmən]
Definition
(n.) One who speaks for another.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Speaker, prolocutor.
Editor: Whitney
Definition
n. one who speaks for another or for others an advocate.
Typed by Lillian
Examples
- Standing as a spokesman of an actual social revolt, he has not lost his vision because he understands its function. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Gerald, who was spokesman, said that they would willingly take part in the entertainment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- President Wilson was the spokesman of a new age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the men refused it, but the other told the first spokesman to let me have them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded the tableau of the whole; whereupon the curtain again descended. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What is both possible and desirable is that every group interest should be represented in public life--that it should have spokesmen and influence in public affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Confronted with the deep insurgency of labor what do capitalists and their spokesmen do? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Ricky