SPEAK FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speak for mean? 

• SPEAK FOR (verb)
  The verb SPEAK FOR has 1 sense:

1. be a spokesperson for

  Familiarity information: SPEAK FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEAK FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be a spokesperson for

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

He represents the Government's position

Hypernyms (to "speak for" is one way to...):

represent (be representative or typical for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I knew of what he was thinking, and wanted to speak for him, but dared not.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My conduct shall speak for me; absence, distance, time shall speak for me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Speak for yourself, if you please.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Let my people speak for me of things I have done which they know.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to speak for himself.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will speak for myself, before him, and before God afterwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Upon my word, I cannot exactly explain the matter; Darcy must speak for himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By my hilt! camarades, I think that I may let my plunder speak for itself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Take an active role in all your financial decisions, and do not let anyone speak for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)