interlocutor
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A person who takes part in a dialogue or negotiation, especially as the recognised counterpart of another side.
Without a credible interlocutor on the other side, the mediators had no one with whom to strike a deal.
Business noun
A person one negotiates or converses with, especially as a designated counterpart.
Establishing a single senior interlocutor stopped the other side from playing us off.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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