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point person

point person noun: the person in the most prominent position on something, such as a spokesperson or manager.

Noun

point person (plural point persons or point people)

  1. The person in the most prominent position on something, such as a spokesperson or manager.
    • Unfortunately, not every bride-to-be can afford to hire a wedding planner to help her prepare for her big day. Rather than trying to oversee the events of the day yourself, why not assign someone the duty of acting as your point person? A point person is someone who will be responsible for making...2013, Camille Zarrelli, Top Ten Things: Every Bride Should Do When Planning Her Wedding, →ISBN
    • The ideal bridge between the company and the production vendor's team is the point person (project manager, contact person, lead person, or liaison) and at least one backup point person.2017, Gerry Souter, Buying and Selling Multimedia Services, →ISBN
  2. One who goes ahead of a group in order to indicate the direction in which it should move.
    • Once he is sure the point person is on the bearing the reference person can move up to the position of the point person and the point person can continue on the bearing.1997, Glen Stedham, Bush Basics: A Common Sense Guide to Backwoods Adventure, →ISBN
    • As soon as your point person begins to deviate, instruct him to correct his direction. The point person needs to adjust only slightly to stay in a straight line.2007, Martin Volken, Scott Schell, Margaret Wheeler, Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering, →ISBN

Examples of point person in a sentence

  • Rather than trying to oversee the events of the day yourself, why not assign someone the duty of acting as your point person?2013, Camille Zarrelli, Top Ten Things: Every Bride Should Do When Planning Her Wedding, →ISBN:
  • Finally, the initial contact often becomes the project's point person, helping to organize, motivate, and communicate with participants throughout the project.2018, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Xiaojun June Chen, Michael P. Downton, Managing Educational Technology, →ISBN:
  • If you have two or more people in your party, at least one of whom has some experience and a compass, you can implement a point person to guide you in the absence of recognizable landscape features.2017, Walter Glen Martin, Prepper's Survival Navigation, →ISBN:

Forms of point person

pluralpoint persons
pluralpoint people

Questions about point person

What does point person mean?
Point person means the person in the most prominent position on something, such as a spokesperson or manager.
How do you use point person in a sentence?
Rather than trying to oversee the events of the day yourself, why not assign someone the duty of acting as your point person?
What part of speech is point person?
Point person is a noun.
What is the plural of point person?
The plural of point person is point persons.

Words near point person in the dictionary

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  6. point person
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  8. Point Piper
  9. Point Pleasant
  10. point presser
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