spokespeople
- 1Plural of spokesperson.
Several spokespeople from the campaign gave conflicting accounts of the incident.
The agency trained its spokespeople to handle hostile press conferences.
Note
A compound that borrows the everyday plural of person: just as one person becomes two people, one spokesperson becomes several spokespeople. Spokespersons is also accepted. Either form works as the gender-neutral alternative to the older paired spokesmen and spokeswomen. That makes it handy when a team mixes both, or when gender is beside the point. The verb that follows is plural: the spokespeople were unavailable.
spokespeople is a form of spokesperson
spokesperson, noun: Someone chosen to speak publicly on behalf of another person or a group of people. Full entry
- Forms
- spokespersonspokespersons pluralspokespeople plural
- Spelling
- spokesperson → spokespeople: irregular plural (no -s)
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