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press agent

or pressagent

noun

  1. a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.


press agent

noun

  1. a person employed to obtain favourable publicity, such as notices in newspapers, for an organization, actor, etc PA
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of press agent1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

You would drink it, then “take a little nap and after that you feel wonderful,” according to a press agent.

By 1952 he could no longer afford a press agent and owed the IRS more than $100,000 in back taxes.

She was married to a press agent and, supposedly, had an affair with Ethel Merman.

And when the last clue is exhausted, and my press-agent is the same, I come back to appear in a new play, a well-known actress.

He had evidently been reading what the press agent had stuffed into the newspapers.

And suddenly she had met Josh Nebbins, press-agent for a local theater.

From now on you're going to be my press-agent—I mean Doctor Gilman's press-agent.

It was to be, in the expansive language of the press agent, "a cultured audience made up of the élite of the community."

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