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say it: SPOHK-spur-suhn
spokesperson is a noun meaning "an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose". It is pronounced /ˈspoʊkspɚsən/ — SPOHK-spur-suhn. It carries one recorded sense.
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
“the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spokesperson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.