单词 | contact man |
释义 | > as lemmascontact man contact man n. originally U.S. colloquial an intermediary in a transaction; a go-between; one who carries or supplies information (cf. sense 2d above). ΘΚΠ society > communication > [noun] > one who or that which communicates communicator1550 correspondent1639 communicant1847 intercommunicator1855 languager1918 contact man1926 1926 M. Connelly Traveler 5 Each one of us conductors is really a contact man. 1938 D. Thomas Let. 31 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 220 I met that sap Goodland, the blue-and-water-eyed contactman. 1949 Times 31 Jan. 4/6 Business men are tempted to employ ‘contact men’ in an effort to smooth away obstacles. < as lemmas |
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