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Public relations

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The professional dissemination and management of information by a person or an organization to the public with the purpose of creating a favorable public image. uncountable

    "The public relations drive accompanying the opening of Stage I is impressive."

  2. 2
    a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution wordnet
  3. 3
    The favorability of the public image of a person or organization. broadly, metonymically, uncountable

    "to get bad public relations"

Etymology

Since the early twentieth century. The term gained popularity as a euphemism for propaganda after that originally neutral term acquired a negative connotation during the political upheavals of the early twentieth century.

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