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What is the noun for ombudsman?

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ombudsman
  1. An appointed official whose duty is to investigate complaints, generally on behalf of individuals such as consumers or taxpayers, against institutions such as companies and government departments.
  2. A designated internal mediator in an organization whose duty is to assist members with conflict resolution and other problems and to serve as an independent consultant to recommend changes to policies or procedures to improve organization effectiveness, efficiency, and humaneness.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The rate of complaints is escalating and the ombudsman expects numbers to continue rising sharply.”
      “We don't have a financial services authority or ombudsman in many of the countries where expats are.”
      “The ombudsman criticised the school for breaking strict admissions rules set out in the code of practice on comprehensive admissions.”
ombudsperson
  1. An ombudsman or ombudswoman.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The referendum appeals committee, chaired by the ombudsperson, decided that the referendum was invalid and threw out the results.”
      “An informal resolution session was held between the student, the ombudsperson, the course director, and the associate dean for student affairs.”
      “The police withdrew when El Salvador's ombudsperson for Human Rights intervened.”
ombudsmanry
ombudsmanship
  1. The position or office of an ombudsman.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Diamandouros has made important contributions to the preparation of a law on ombudsmanship in Turkey, Bagis said.”
      “I didn't come into this with any preconceived ideas about what should be done, I wanted to remain open to the wider ideals of an Ombudsmanship.”
ombudswoman
ombud
  1. (informal) ombudsman
ombudsmanships
  1. plural of ombudsmanship
ombudspeople
  1. plural of ombudsperson
ombudspersons
  1. plural of ombudsperson
  2. Examples:
    1. “Organizations often rely on mechanisms such as suggestion programs, ombudspersons, or participative management to encourage their members' participation.”
      “For the use of ombudspersons and special events, cities in the two nations are becoming more alike over time.”
      “More and more Protestants are kneeling in supplication before the quangos, commissions, agencies and ombudspersons that they once so rightly despised.”
ombudswomen
  1. plural of ombudswoman
ombudsmen
  1. plural of ombudsman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In other words, ombudsmen were never set up to be anti-corruption commissions.”
      “It's a powerful song, whose repeat chorus has done more against police brutality than a quorum of ombudsmen could have achieved.”
      “The Times has been criticized for downplaying the strike by its own ombudsmen, as well as by actors and activists.”
ombuds
  1. plural of ombud
  2. Examples:
    1. “Other forms of ADR include fact-finding, ombuds, mini-trials, private judging, partnering and elections.”
      “In their place, we have installed a system most properly described as 308 elected ombuds.”
      “Nevertheless, she said ombuds can raise important issues such as the media's overuse of anonymous sources, a topic she championed while at the Post.”
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