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spokesman

nounattested in dialogue

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."

    Libyan war planes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country's internationally recognized government said on Monday.

    President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.

    Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.

Etymology

From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man.

Forms

plural
spokesmen
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).