0 a person who is chosen to speak officially for a group or organization: --
1 a person who makes official, public statements for a group or organization: --
a government spokesperson
2 someone who is chosen or employed by a person or organization to speak officially to the public for them: --
Every time they play musical chairs, the new spokesperson drops the old policies.
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.
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.
The judge or scientist is, so to speak, merely a spokesperson for the system.
For some reason, he seems to be the obvious choice as a spokesperson for the family.
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.
All utterances by journalists were identified as requests, and instances of spokespersons' non-compliance with requests were considered to be refusals.
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.
