Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who investigates complaints and mediates fair settlements, especially between aggrieved parties such as consumers or students and an institution or organization.
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- noun A
female ombudsman .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The case is shocking," said Maria Luisa Cava del Llano, Spain's ombudswoman.
Olimpia, Mother Of 10-Year-Old Who Gave Birth, Is 'Happy' AP 2010
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In early April, National Public Radio's ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard, released the results of her own gender survey in a blog post titled, "Where are the women?"
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Kind of like a one-woman blogosphere ombudswoman ...
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Media watchers will remember that the Post's internal thrashing over Froomkin's column led to the Web site's last major public stumble, when it removed blog comments from a post by the paper's ombudswoman, Deborah Howell after an imbroglio that began over Froomkin's column and continued over Howell's imprecise post about allegedly bipartisan political contributions by GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
03/23/2006 2006
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Namibia's ombudswoman, Bience Gawanas, said the ombudsman institution had increased to cover the continent, and all Africans were represented in the diversity of the mandates and jurisdictions of these various offices.
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One of them, the ombudswoman, whose job is to curb abuses of state power, demanded a criminal investigation.
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Gabriela Ramirez, the country's public ombudswoman, was among those pictured in the latest montage and said "it didn't make us laugh."
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In early April, National Public Radio's ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard, released the results of her own gender survey in a blog post titled,
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Megan Tady 2010
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In early April, National Public Radio's ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard, released the results of her own gender survey in a blog post titled,
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Megan Tady 2010
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Ironically, two years ago he was also quoted in former Post ombudswoman
News & Politics 2010
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