interlocutor
IPA: ɪntɝɫˈɑkjʌtɝ
noun
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation.
- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader.
- (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- (Scotland, law) A decree of a court.
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Examples of "interlocutor" in Sentences
- The meme our illustrious interlocutor is faultily remembering is “information wants to be free.”
- Instead, the interlocutor is saying that the author was himself anti-Catholic, and therefore all of his writings are to be avoided.
- He hisses at him for being a "banker" (sounds like wanker, get it?) and pulls him up for using the term interlocutor twice (this from the man who brought you indefatigability).
- Two such massive egotists on stage without a disciplinary interlocutor is always a risk: Sinclair begins by claiming that he may have invented Home as a character, or at least some of his ‘psychogeographical’ writings.
- Nowadays if you meet a German of a certain age, their families always voted Social Democrat before 1933, they themselves always served on the Western Front (if their interlocutor is Russian or Polish) or the Eastern Front (if you are British or American) and they always surrendered as soon as they could and they never, ever knew about the Holocaust.
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