[
US
/ˈspikɝ/
]
[ UK /spˈiːkɐ/ ]
[ UK /spˈiːkɐ/ ]
NOUN
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the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly
the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives
How To Use Speaker In A Sentence
- Second, that the entire Reichstag assented to the declarations made by the speakers on Tuesday that the Emperor had exceeded his constitutional prerogatives in private discussion with foreigners concerning Germany's attitude on controverted questions. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?
- there are few Manx speakers alive today
- The angry audience shouted the speaker down.
- Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
- It is critical to an understanding of deixis to recall that even very ‘local’ elements of context, such as a speaker's own corporeal experience and perceptual field, are susceptible of schematisation.
- She was a lively public speaker, a governor of two schools, and a member of Beverley Minster parochial church council.
- ‘If lying is wrong, then he will lie,’ has an antecedent whose embedded content is the same as a statement predicating the property on which the speakers moral disapproval supervenes.
- Language is a collaborative activity Meaning arises as much from what listeners hear as what speakers intend to say.
- A celebrated public speaker, he established the tradition of commemorative oratory in the United States.
- He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.