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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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As contact man with the field, General Marshall had another Army ranker as Assistant Secretary of State for occupied areas: Major General John H. Hilldring, onetime Civil Affairs Division chief in the War Department.

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Industry: General Motors, the No. 2 U.S. company in defense orders, No. 1 in simultaneous peace production, sent a new contact man to Washington last week.

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As his staff contact man with Southern Representatives, O'Brien wisely selected Henry Hall Wilson Jr., 39, a North Carolinian who had done yeoman service for Candidate Kennedy in Wilson's native state during the 1960 campaign.

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Henry Wallich, a former Yale professor, is the board's contact man with foreign central banks.

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Occasionally she even picked up references to Brule Inger, who functioned nowadays as Precol's official greeter and contact man in the system.

From Legacy by James H. Schmitz

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