[rap-awr-tur; Fr. ra-pawr-tœr] 
[-turz; Fr. -tœr] . | a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body. |
| rap·por·teur (rāp'ôr-tûr', -tɶr') n. One who is designated to give a report, as at a meeting. [Middle English raportour, judge, from Old French raporteur, from raporter, to bring back; see rapport.] |
rapporteur
in French civil law, a judge who furnishes a written report on the case at hand to other judges of the court, in which he sets forth the arguments of the parties, specifies the questions of fact and of law raised in the dispute, and lists the evidence on the issue
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