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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 30, 2009interlocutor \in-ter-LOK-yuh-ter\, noun: 1. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially. In the course of an hour, Mukasey cracked jokes, asked an interlocutor not to address him with the honorary title "General" and continued to field questions even after his media director moved to get up from the table. Judge Richard Posner, of the appellate court in Chicago, has been the interlocutor for the contentious negotiations, which were raw with distrust on both sides, the sources said. The words promised excitement. I was going to be told something so confidential that my interlocutor not only didn't want to be named, but didn't want the information he was disclosing to be printed at all. Interlocutor is from Latin interlocutus, variant of interloqui "interrupt," from inter- "between" and loqui "speak." | |||||||||
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