(n.) One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
(n.) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(2) In a meeting with another American official last summer, he explained his strategy of targeting rural populations and small towns, impressing his interlocutor.
(3) where the child is presented as the agent of a meaningful activity or not, shows how the place constructed for the baby as an interlocutor in maternal speech evolves with age.
(4) Henry VIII would have understood but modern-day interlocutors find it harder to grasp.
(5) According to diplomatic sources, Blair has been a key interlocutor in recent days.
(6) However, he said their Taliban interlocutors were "very silent" on the question of the Haqqani network, which has attacked US and Afghan forces from their base in Pakistan.
(7) Hamas’s new document must be recognised as an opportunity to engage with a crucial interlocutor that continues to enjoy some legitimacy among its constituents.
(8) Suhail said the Taliban are insistent that they want their first interlocutors to be the United States.
(9) He also says he dreamed that he carried a sword bearing the words "there is no god but Allah" written in red, and confirmed to his interlocutor that he harboured presidential ambitions outside of his visions.
(10) Pillay said her interlocutors painted a "very disturbing picture" of domestic violence, suggesting rape was fairly commonplace but rarely investigated.
(11) And it typically lacks solid conclusions, leading interlocutors nowhere.
(12) He is absolutely precise, he reacts as you would expect to his interlocutor, he analyses fairly quickly, answers questions that are put to him.
(13) Palestinians and their supporters have frequently charged that, rather than a neutral interlocutor, Blair is strongly pro-Israel.
(14) Like all ambassadors, part of his role is to report the views of others.” Speaking later in the House of Commons, Mark Garnier, a trade minister, said Rogers had been reporting the views of “interlocutors”.
(15) The Vatican was a key interlocutor in the secret negotiations that preceded the thaw.
(16) It is better to have an interlocutor who is not constantly looking for votes because they have had the election in order to work towards a good solution.
(17) Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
(18) The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother).
(19) Could there be movement on this central point, the possibility of Ipso collecting its money direct from those it regulates (with an independent finance interlocutor on hand to ensure fair play)?
(20) Kerry admitted to his Indian interlocutors that "on the Pakistani side of the border, a change was needed in the dynamics of how a fragile Pakistani civilian government and its strong military interacted with groups such as the Quetta Shura [the Taliban top leadership]" as well as the network of insurgents led by extremist cleric Jalaluddin Haqqani .
Locution
Definition:
(n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mas never uses the word "independence" and it does not appear in his party, Convergència i Unió's manifesto, which instead refers to "our own state", Mas's preferred locution.
(2) To achieve conceptual clarity in the theory of placebogenic phenomena, this paper offers a rigorous articulation of the placebo notion, a lucid new terminology that obviates the defects intrinsic to the traditional locutions employed in the placebo literature, and a substantial revamping of A. K. Shapiro's influential prior definition of 'placebo'.
(3) Those leaking against Flynn, Nunes said, using a favored Trump locution, “ want the swamp to remain ”.
(4) In spite of its ambiguity, the use of the locution natural drug is spreading in the lay media and efforts are made to introduce it in more scientific contexts.