congressperson
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈkɒŋɡrɛsˌpɜrsən/
- US
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congresista
- My congressperson voted in favor of the bill to improve healthcare for all citizens.
- congressperson or senator
- call your congressperson
- send my congressperson
I need to protest and speak to a congressperson.
- I need to protest and speak to a congressperson.
- You'll have the phone number you click, you'll be able to reach that congressperson's office or state legislator's office.
- The job of a congressperson, a representative, is to represent the people of their district and go to DC and advocate for them.
- Let your senator, let your congressperson know that you want the Consumer Financial Protection Beat Bureau, your cop on the beat, to be there for you.
- Hell, I can't even be a congressperson, you know?
- He was a congressperson anyway, so that means he's sorry.
Examples
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We need you to call your congressperson and get them to vote our way.
Blog text (8) -
Do you have a moment to stop by your Congressperson's in-district office?
Blog text (28) -
And so, but my point is write to your congressperson because they will have an impact on this.
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Call every congressperson you know; get them to listen to the evidence; shut down this mess.
Blog text (34) -
You can phone your congressperson, and you can write a letter to the editor.
Fiction book (1998) -
Should send a copy of this to their congressperson and senator.
Blog text (34) -
And write to your congressperson at www.congress.org in support of National Poetry Month.
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Why don't you come up with a bill and submit it to your congressperson or senator?
Blog text (32) -
Let your senator, let your congressperson know that you want the Consumer Financial Protection Beat Bureau, your cop on the beat, to be there for you.
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The success of these states' initiatives convinced many congresspersons that federal action was necessary and feasible.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
∞
2.9
A person who works in government or politics, often as an elected leader
784
3.5
A man chosen by voters to serve in the United States House of Representatives
244
3.2
A person who votes on laws in national or local government
180
5.5
A person who makes laws as a member of a government group
149
3.5
A woman who is a member of a national law-making body, especially in the United States
A person elected to a national legislature, for example a member of Congress
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Congressperson is made of congress and person. The part con- means 'together' and the part -gress means 'step', as in progress, so congress is people who 'come together', and a congressperson is a person who comes together with others to make laws.