Definition of "speechmaker" [speech•mak•er]

• One who makes a speech. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She takes his inspiring rhetoric and says he's just being a "speechmaker;" he takes her experience and transforms it into "same old politics.""
• "Like the handwritten scripts from his days as a radio commentator in the 1970s — published in Reagan, In His Own Hand in 2001 —The Notes displays the effort he made behind the scenes to hone his performance as a speechmaker and storyteller driving home a conservative political philosophy."
• "Like many of us, their view of what our speechmaker represents was quite different weeks after the election."