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contact man

British  

noun

  1. an intermediary or go-between

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The contact man who was to meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor.

From Time Magazine Archive

An easy, likable gladhander, he served Paramount Publix as Washington contact man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boris Steiger, for 14 years the Soviet Foreign Commissariat's chief contact man with Moscow diplomats, a personal friend and frequent guest of the first U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.,

From Time Magazine Archive

If a Super-Power wanted to contact man, it seems unlikely to me that it'd be all wrapped up in a lot of complicated gobbledegook.

From Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds

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