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someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else- The president's emissary says she aims to restart peace talks by the end of July.
emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- The North Koreans want a high-powered U.S. emissary for the meeting.
- was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissaryNathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- If film noir males are destroyed or nearly destroyed by fate, the noir woman is fate's emissary...Jack Nachbar
- Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- Undoubtedly he was some emissary of the Iron Heel, but he has escaped detection.Jack London -- The Iron Heel
- And I will ask Hrothgar to send an emissary to Ceris to inform the elves of the situation so that they are forewarned, if nothing else.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- I came in peace from my lord Amon-Ra as an emissary to Wise Odin.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- First I need to know what the emissaries from Sounis said.Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
- He seemed to feel that it was necessary for Clyde to purge his soul to him—or some one like him—a material and yet spiritual emissary of God.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- When it was supposed that Dr. Flint's emissaries had lost track of me, and given up the pursuit for the present, I returned to New York.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Day by day, he saw her stature grow among the emissaries, functionaries, nobles, and commoners with whom she dealt.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- The team had become emissaries.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Here also, at my invitation, is Astaroth's emissary, Lord Aamon.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- The fast food chains are now imperial fiefdoms, sending their emissaries far and wide.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- Silver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired again, leaving us together in the dark.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- Glenn Gould at the piano, wild-haired, ebullient, head thrown back, emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- "Kessell has demanded an emissary," he said, "and so we must deliver one."R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
- The whole party would doubtless have perished but for the customary meeting with our emissaries.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else — typically one country's interest to another country