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Meaning of "press agent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRESS AGENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRESS AGENT

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Press agent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRESS AGENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Press agent

A press agent, or flack, is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. Press agents are typically employed by public personalities and organizations such as performers and businesses. A press agent will provide information to the media such as upcoming public events, interview opportunities, and promotional dates, and will work with the media in getting in touch with an appropriate client or resource. Press agents are occasionally required to act as "spin doctors" – to put into the best light their clients' public actions. While press agents have traditionally worked with newspapers and television, they may also be conversant with newer media forms such as blogs and podcasts.

Definition of press agent in the English dictionary

The definition of press agent in the dictionary is a person employed to obtain favourable publicity, such as notices in newspapers, for an organization, actor, etc PA.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRESS AGENT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PRESS AGENT

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Synonyms and antonyms of press agent in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «press agent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRESS AGENT

Find out the translation of press agent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of press agent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «press agent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

按代理
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agente de prensa
570 millions of speakers

English

press agent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेस एजेंट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

وكيل الصحافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пресс-агент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Assessoria de Imprensa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রেস এজেন্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attachée de presse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ejen akhbar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Presseagent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

プレス·エージェント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보도 에이전트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agen pencet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chổ phân phát báo chí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பத்திரிகை முகவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेस एजंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

basın sözcüsü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

addetto stampa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

środek naciśnij
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прес - агент
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agent de presă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκπρόσωπος τύπου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pers agent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pressmedel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

presseagent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of press agent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESS AGENT»

The term «press agent» is regularly used and occupies the 71.857 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESS AGENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about press agent

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QUOTES WITH «PRESS AGENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word press agent.
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Donna Summer
I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESS AGENT»

Discover the use of press agent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to press agent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ink from a Circus Press Agent: An Anthology of Circus ...
Charles H. Day, one of the leading "puffers" of his time, was particularly active between 1872-87, but unlike many of his colleagues, was also published widely in the entertainment newspapers and magazines.
Charles H. Day, William Lawrence Slout, 1995
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Spinning Disney's World: Memories of a Magic Kingdom Press Agent
A Society of American Travel Writers member and more than four-decade publicist for Disney recounts his long-standing career with the Magic Kingdom, a time during which he orchestrated such activities as the training of Peking ducks for ...
Charles Ridgway, 2007
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, 1980
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The Gentleman Press Agent: Fifty Years in the Theatrical ...
He was Broadway's last gentleman press agent.
Robert Simonson, 2010
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Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. ...
Joining together leading voices in the field of print scholarship, this collection of twenty essays affirms the catalytic properties of Eisenstein's study as a stimulus to further inquiry across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary ...
Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, Eleanor F. Shevlin, 2007
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Advertising and Public Relations
With more experience the Press Agent Trainee will begin to find hooks or angles for press releases. These are the ideas that make a press release exciting and capture the attention of editors and talent coordinators. The Press Agent Trainee  ...
Shelly Field, 2005
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Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies : Agent-Based ...
... it were, "rewind the tape" of sociocultural history and to experimentally examine the relative contributions of internal and external factors to sociocultural evolution (Gumerman and Kohler in press). Agent-based modeling allows the creation ...
Department of Anthropology Washington State University Timothy A. Kohler Professor and Chair, Arizona State Museum George G. Gumerman Director, and Research Professor of Anthropology University of Arizona, 2000
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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal ...
... Interest 70 (1oo1-3): 55-64, and Joad Raymond, U'A Mercury with a Winged Conscience': Marchamont Nedham, Monopoly and Censorship," Media History 4 (1998): 7-18. Frank, Cromwell's Press Agent, 74, and Knachel, introduction, xxiv.
Vickie B. Sullivan, 2006
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Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture
The press agent's primary function is to prepare the politician for public consumption. He or she attempts to massage messages and meanings so that they are interpreted favorably by the media first and then the public itself. Press agents are ...
P. David Marshall, 1997
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Warrior the Untamed; The Story of an Imaginative Press Agent
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
LT Col Will Irwin, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESS AGENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term press agent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Do you remember 'Chief Wachickanoka' -- buried alive with snakes …
The outlet's eager press agent insists that WDGY program director Don Kelly and his spinners were also pressed into service when the snakes ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Jul 15»
2
HYPE: The Life of Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter at Janet Kurnatowski …
"Make It Important!" was Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter's showbiz creed. Now the press agent and movie producer's legendary life is the subject of ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
3
Locals represent Aurora ALA, North Marion at last month's Girls State
... delegates served in the mock House of Representatives and one was a roving press agent who helped produce the daily Girls State Journal. «Pamplin Media Group, Jul 15»
4
1915: It Was a Very Good Year
Little known is the fact that his press agent, George Evans, paid a few girls to instigate the exuberance and before long many others joined in ... «OB Rag, Jul 15»
5
Huge collection of celebrity memorabilia up for auction
He was the longtime press agent for Theatre Under the Stars and led a campaign in the 1970s to save Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre. «Richmond Review, Jul 15»
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Mark Shenton: Is Dusty the West End's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?
The show's brilliant and combative press agent Rick Miramontez pitched in at the time with a review of his own of the critics: "The PILE-ON by ... «The Stage, Jul 15»
7
New York Innovative Theatre Foundation Announces IT Award …
Press photos and information about the event are available atwww.nyitawards.com and from our press agent Katie Rosin at 917-438-9223and ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
8
Fame Isn't the Prize; It's the Price
... the memoir of his continuing 60 year career as press agent to hundreds of the greatest stars of film, television and pop music history. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Original Company Co-Star George Coe Dies at 86
And he was Owen O'Malley, the cynical press agent and Oscar Jaffe sidekick, in the 1978 musical On the Twentieth Century. Off-Broadway in ... «Playbill.com, Jul 15»
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Remembering Roger Rees, Broadway's humble star
Josh Ellis, the show's press agent, and his producers decided to go with Time magazine, which promised a cover story. Rees was rehearsing ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

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