emissary
使者,特使,代表,传令官
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plural em·is·sar·ies.
- : a representative sent on a mission or errand: emissaries to negotiate a peace.
- : an agent sent on a mission of a secret nature, as a spy.
- : Anatomy. sending or coming out, as certain veins that pass through the skull and connect the venous sinuses inside with the veins outside.
- : pertaining to an emissary.
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- : Archaic. sent forth, as on a mission.
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Examples
Like their queen’s emissaries, RNA molecules carry out the instructions for protein assembly, catalyze reactions, and perform other duties, keeping their cellular dominion in good health.
They are emissaries of Earth, little metal spores from Earth.
He protested Mann’s mission and warned that American policymakers “were exposing their emissary to be treated as a spy.”
Infused with social media–savvy prose and all the latest tech fads—from cryptocurrency to brain-computer interfaces—the story unfolds through retelling from the alternating points of view of an alien emissary’s closest friends.
Instead, he sent mid-level emissaries to assure the solicitous officials his company would sort things on its own.
Hay was the foppish “smiling emissary” whose conversational skills could make petitioners forget they came to see the president.
The FBI has described Mostafa as an emissary for Zawahiri in Somalia.
Jamal tried to visit the al Qaeda master in Pakistan, he writes, but had to send an emissary instead.
It came a day before his special emissary on Palestinian affairs, Tzippi Livni, met with John Kerry in Washington.
When the emissary phoned him to say the fee had been refused, he said he had meetings and could not talk.
The consequence was, the disappointed emissary of these double treasons, immediately accused him of his own crimes.