spokesperson
A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.船厂发言人说他们希望在两年内让第一艘潜艇下水。
A spokesman for the Palace has denied the accusation.皇室发言人否认了该指控。
Whenever the president is in difficulties, her spokesman is trotted out to face the press.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Speakers & talkers
caller
commentator
conversationalist
debater
demagogic
demagogically
demagoguery
demagogy
flack
informant
motormouth
orator
public speaker
quidnunc
raconteur
speaker
speechifier
speechmaker
spokeswoman
superflack

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Organizations - position & status

spokesman | American Dictionary

spokesman
noun[ C ]
us/ˈspoʊks·mən/plural-menus/ˈspoʊks·mən/
a male spokesperson

spokesman | Business English

spokesman
noun[ C ]
 MARKETINGuk /ˈspəʊksmən/ us /ˈspoʊks-/pluralspokesmen
a man who acts as a spokesperson:
The spokesman repeated the company's claim that it was not to blame for the accident.

Examples of spokesman

spokesman
Along the way, the workers rejected many of their putative spokesmen and repeatedly threw over the deals that had been struck for them.
They were not permanent officials in the way spokesmen are in some other cultures.
These helped their politicisation which was expressed by them and their spokesmen in various public and party meetings.
Before 1920 the "good informant," a volunteer farmer acting as spokesman for his neighbors, is both surveyor and surveyed.
In our case, the messengers were ad hoc spokesmen.
A spokesman has called the center to apologize.
However, the voice emanating from these metascientific contributions does not sound like that of a spokesman for any major philosophical trend of the time.
The activities of such spokesmen kept the expedition alive for their audience and for the scientific community despite their ups and downs.
At the time the victims, or their spokesmen, had little power or little interest in raising potentially embarrassing events.
Various groups and spokesmen did not want to take this step out of fear of the marginalisation of their faction.
A local police spokesman stated that the scene resembled a festival.
But the hunter imagery also had its counterpart, ' the blacksmith king ' (or spokesman king).
Then one physician, acting as primary spokesman, should present it to the family.
Each locality had its own age-set spokesman and its own council of elders to settle disputes and enforce customary law.
Different government spokesmen negotiated with the opposition, but the president himself remained silent.
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