spokeswoman

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anti-elite
anti-elitist
apparatchik
back seat
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spokesperson | American Dictionary

spokesperson
noun[ C ]
us/ˈspoʊksˌpɜr·sən/plural-peopleus/ˈspoʊksˌpi·pəl/
a person who makes official, public statements for a group or organization:
a government spokesperson

spokesperson | Business English

spokesperson
noun[ C ]
 MARKETINGuk /ˈspəʊksˌpɜːsən/uspluralspokespeople
someone who is chosen or employed by a person or organization to speak officially to the public for them:
A company spokesperson said that customers would get their money by the end of this week.
a spokesperson for sb/sthA spokesperson for the company noted that premium increases have fallen from 19% to 10% per year.

Examples of spokesperson

spokesperson
Interestingly, accuracy was not related to whether the surrogate decision-maker was the patient's preferred spokesperson.
One of the spokespersons for the practice compared doctors who refuse to perform circumcisions to priests who refuse to baptize children.
As such each person becomes a spokesperson for the rest of the network.
For example, a gas oven commercial with female spokespersons can be classified in both technology and gender roles simultaneously.
She became a spokesperson for the secret domestic world and its pain.
In these cases, the introduction of a spokesperson will usually benefit the coalition as a whole.
Afterwards, a spokesperson from each group summarizes the family descriptions for the class.
Many public sector spokespersons are therefore arguing that bringing in private partners is likely to increase costs and risks rather than provide more cost-efficient solutions.
All utterances by journalists were identified as requests, and instances of spokespersons' non-compliance with requests were considered to be refusals.
Suppose that each of those groups is moderately diverse, and that multiple spokespersons are thus required from each of them to represent that intra-group diversity.
For some reason, he seems to be the obvious choice as a spokesperson for the family.
The judge or scientist is, so to speak, merely a spokesperson for the system.
While in their selection of a male and female spokesperson the commercials seems cautious to avoid targeting a single gender, they are relatively sanguine about the racialisation of the collections.
Politics, in modern societies, is a matter of representation, and political decision makers require that political claims be presented to them by legitimate spokespersons who speak for legitimate collective actors.
Every time they play musical chairs, the new spokesperson drops the old policies.
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