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contact person en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group; a representative whose contact details are made public.
   • The express terms of the proposed action written in plain English are available from the agency contact person named in this notice. 1997, Z Register, page 1947:
   • Opportunity for Public Comment Notice is given that any person may file written comments on the proposed rule making with the agency contact person on or before December 2, 1988. 1988, Arizona Administrative Register - Volume 88, page 170:
2. A person in an organization whose role puts them in contact with non-members.
   • In many knowledge or service based strategies, the person in contact with the customer — the "contact person" or "point person" — becomes perhaps the most important person in the organization. 1992, James Brian Quinn, Intelligent Enterprise, page 102:
   • These contact people themselves have much responsibility for marketing, as they are in closer contact with customers than anyone else in the business. 2004, Morgen Witzel, Management: The Basics, page 106:
3. A point person.
   • The contact person at the company sponsoring the plan must be detail- and numbers-oriented. 1995, Stephen J. Butler, The Decision-maker's Guide to 401(k) Plans, page 91:
   • It is worth noting that the HSA Code of Practice (2007) states that the employer should name a 'contact person' whose task it is to '...listen and advise about complaints of bullying at work and explain the procedures in place to resolve it'. 2016, Anne-Marie Quigg, The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace Bullying, page 135:
   • Establish an alternative contact and copy him or her on information you send to the primary contact. Sometimes the contact person comes down with a cold on your production day. 2014, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, 12th, page 381:
   • Both mailings will be sent to the bidder's contact person at the contact address identified in the bidder's FCC Form 175. 2003, United States. Federal Communications Commission, FCC Record, page 26069:
   • If I reside in a community where a Parole Officer is not assigned, I will obtain a community contact person approved by my Parole Officer. 2014, Jerry Tanner, 1,825 Days of Hell:
4. A person, such as next of kin, who should be told about someone's situation if an emergency occurs.
   • The name and phone numbers of every contact person should be reviewed by HR ; unfortunately , the person who is listed at the time of hire is often the person now doing the victimizing. 2005, Johnny Lee, Addressing Domestic Violence in the Workplace, page 98:
   • Contain an option for each student to identify a contact person or persons whom the institution shall notify within 24 hours of the determination that the student is missing, if the student has been determined missing by the institutional police or campus security department, or the local law enforcement agency; 2012, Code of Federal Regulations, page 566:
   • An informed consent and safety plan need to include a contact person. 2016, Lee A. Underwood, Frances L.L. Dailey, Counseling Adolescents Competently, page 415:
   • Searching through a cell phone memory of numbers takes valuable time and without a way to identify the emergency contact person from the list of stored numbers, the wrong person or no person may get contacted to advise of your situation and location. 2010, Randy DeVaul, Home Emergency: Preparing your family for surviving the worst!, page 13:
5. A person with whom one has had contact; a contact.
   • The diary was organized as a table in which participants recorded the following features of their contacts during work and leisure time: age (or age range) and sex of the contact person; location where the contact occurred (multiple locations possible); indication of whether physical contact was involved; and lengt of time the contact lasted. 2009, Emerging Infectious Diseases - Volume 15, Issue 9, page 1439:
   • Pray for the church outreaches that a strong conviction of the Holy Spirit will come upon every contact person for them to accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. 2022, Emmanuel Allotey, 101 Prayer Points for Church Growth:

Forms

Hyponyms

contact man · contact woman

Relateds

go-to person

Translations (6)

nl contactpersoon (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group) · fi yhdyshenkilö (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group) · fi yhteyshenkilö (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group) · fr personne de contact (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group) · pl osoba kontaktowa (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group) · de Kontaktperson (person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group)