rapporˈteur
[a. F. rapporteur, f. rapporter: see rapport n.]
† 1. A reporter. Obs. rare—1.
| c 1500 Melusine 190 With drawe not rapporteurs of wordes toward you. |
‖ 2. A person who prepares an account of the proceedings of a committee, etc., for a higher body. Cf. reporter 1 c.
| 1791 Ld. Palmerston Diary 13 July in O. Browning Despatches Earl Gower (1885) 290 The Rapporteur said that the Committees did not consider the king's flight as a constitutional crime in him. 1927 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 11/5 The representative of Holland, as the rapporteur, submitted a report of the Permanent Mandates Commission which was adopted by the Council. 1937 Nature 17 Apr. 683/1 Two rapporteurs were appointed to summarize the papers. 1949 I. Deutscher Stalin v. 143 At the conference he was the rapporteur on the problem of nationalities. 1955 Times 1 July 8/5 The congress..has appointed five rapporteurs on economic and financial policy, agriculture, foreign affairs, and the French oversea territories. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 175 The recommendation submitted by the Defence Committee's rapporteur..urged full nuclear co-operation between Britain and France. 1977 Daily Tel. 24 May 16 Normanton is to be the rapporteur of a study into the industrial and economic aspects of buying arms through a Common Market agency. |