emissary

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I picture a briefcase handcuffed to some sort of emissary.

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someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

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noun

someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for emissary.

noun

someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

Example sentences

I picture a briefcase handcuffed to some sort of emissary.

My front end is my emissary to a potentially hostile land.

As pointed out "God" sent an emissary and didn't show up in both Christian and Muslim religions.

> Oleg is an emissary from some advanced alien race.

The emissary left a message that the target could chose between returning to China or committing suicide, Wray said.

Perhaps they could send some sort of harmless-seeming emissary to ask for the information they're already stealing, so Twitter will be more certain they don't have it.

I think I only find apologies strange when they come from devices I consider to be an extension of my own agency, rather than an emissary for someone else's.

Well, obviously Dilbert is an extreme caricature of what happens in most offices, but the comic in and of itself is not a good emissary for the software engineering profession.

"Wray related a case in which he said the Chinese government sent “an emissary” to visit a family in the United States of an unidentified target who could not be located.

Being a president of a college isn't exactly a low-impact position: in addition to being a public emissary to the college, they send the majority of their time on the road, raising money for their endowment.

As pointed out "God" sent an emissary and didn't show up in both Christian and Muslim religionsJee ... I truly wonder why God's son didn't stroll through muslim regions in 0 AD ... despite muslims claiming otherwise, there weren't any muslims back then.