interlocutor

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The alacrity with which the employe hastened forward to reply would indicate that his interlocutor was a person of more than ordinary importance.

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  1. noun Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
  2. noun The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.

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  • I always hope, in fact, that my interlocutor will be a policeman and that he will arrest me for the theft of “The Just Judges.” For the rest—am I right?—no one can arrest me. —  The Fall
  • The screen icon for my interlocutor was a three-holed torus tiled with triangles, endlessly turning itself inside out. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • He enjoyed it to the last, talking as earnestly and joyously at eighty-five as he had done at twenty on every topic that came up, and exerting himself with equal zest, whether his interlocutor was an arch-bishop or a young curate. —  William Ewart Gladstone
  • Or at least "Professor", if the interlocutor is a student. —  Pharyngula
  • The credibility of your interlocutor is always in doubt and you are left second-guessing every response. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. = French interlocuteur = Spanish Portuguese interlocutor = Italian interlocutore, from Latin as if *interlocutor, from interloqui, speak between: see interlocution.
 

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/ɪntərˈlɑkjutər/
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