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spokesperson|ˈspəʊksˌpɜːs(ə)n|
[f. spokesman, after chairperson (see person n. 2 f).]
A manufactured substitute for ‘spokeswoman’ or ‘spokesman’.
One of numerous words formed to avoid alleged sexual discrimination in terminology.
1972Guardian 18 Feb. 11/3 The spokesperson (non⁓sexist term) for UCWR complained that she had been ‘physically assaulted by a university administrator’. 1976New Yorker 29 Nov. 172/2 One's heart and imagination..were repelled by the ascetic, sexual, Christian woman who recurs in Mrs. Spark's novels so often as to suggest, if not an alter ego, a spokesperson. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xviii. 402 A ‘spokesperson’ for the Ellen Jamesians. 1981Economist 28 Nov. 30/1 As a feminist fillip Miss Joan Lestor..has been made spokesperson for women's rights and welfare. |