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spokesperson

Main Entry:
spokesperson [spohks-pur-suhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who communicates for another
Synonyms: agent, champion, delegate, deputy, mediator, mouth, mouthpiece, prolocutor, prophet, protagonist, representative, speaker, stand-in, substitute, talker
Main Entry: chairperson
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person in charge of proceedings
Synonyms: administrator, captain, chair, director, introducer, leader, moderator, monitor, president, presider, principal, prolocutor, speaker, spokesperson, symposiarch
Main Entry: delegate
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: representative, often governmental
Synonyms: agent, alternate, ambassador, appointee, catchpole, commissioner, consul, deputy, emissary, envoy, factor, front*, legate, member, member of congress, minister, mouthpiece, nominee, people's choice, pinch hitter, plenipotentiary, proxy, regent, rep, replacement, senator, spokesperson, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, viceroy
Notes: as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank
a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group
Main Entry: exponent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who supports, advocates
Synonyms: backer, booster, champion, defender, demonstrator, expositor, expounder, interpreter, partisan, promoter, propagandist, proponent, protagonist, second, seconder, spokesperson, supporter, upholder
Main Entry: proponent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who advocates, supports cause
Synonyms: advocate, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast, exponent, expounder, friend, partisan, patron, protector, second, seconder, spokesperson, subscriber, supporter, upholder, vindicator
Antonyms: enemy, foe, opponent
Main Entry: representative
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who acts in the stead of another
Synonyms: agent, assemblyperson, attorney, commissioner, congressperson, councilor, councilperson, counselor, delegate, deputy, lawyer, legislator, member, messenger, proxy, rep, salesperson, senator, spokesperson
Main Entry: ringleader
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: leader
Synonyms: agitator, boss, brains, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, general, head, head honcho, inciter, instigator, mastermind, orchestrator, president, ruler, skipper, spokesperson, troublemaker
Main Entry: speaker
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talker
Synonyms: after-dinner speaker, announcer, elocutionist, keynoter, lecturer, mouthpiece, orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker, spokesperson
Main Entry: interpreter
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: translator
Synonyms: analyst, annotator, artist, biographer, commentator, critic, decoder, delegate, editor, exegete, explicator, exponent, expositor, glossographer, guide, linguist, paraphraser, philosopher, professor, reviewer, scholar, speaker, spokesperson, writer
Notes: an interpreter converts speech to another language and a translator converts writing to another language
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