publicise
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Definition
- Verb:
- To make something widely known to the public: The act of disseminating information, news, or an event to a broad audience through various channels.
- To draw attention to something: The act of promoting or bringing something into public notice, often for a specific purpose.
Usage and Examples
- Verb:
- The company hired a firm to publicise its new product launch. (The company paid a firm to make its new product launch widely known.)
- The charity aims to publicise the plight of endangered species. (The charity aims to draw public attention to the difficult situation of endangered species.)
- He used social media to publicise the community event. (He used social media to make the community event known to many people.)
Advanced Usage
- "to publicise widely": to make something known to a very large audience.
- The findings of the report were publicised widely in the scientific community.
- "to publicise a cause": to promote awareness and support for a particular issue or principle.
- Her life's work was to publicise the cause of universal education.
Variants and Related Words
- Publicist (n): a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, company, or event.
- Publicity (n): notice or attention given to someone or something by the media; the activity of making something publicly known.
- The scandal generated a lot of negative publicity.
Synonyms
- Promote: to help or encourage something to happen, increase, or flourish; to publicize.
- Announce: to make a formal public statement about a fact, occurrence, or intention.
- Broadcast: to transmit a program or information by radio or television; to make widely known.
Antonyms
- Conceal: to keep something secret; to prevent something from being known.
- Suppress: to prevent something from being disclosed or published.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions
(Note: "Publicise" is typically not used in standard phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is carried by the verb itself, often followed by a direct object.) - The core action is expressed as "to publicise [something]".
Related Idioms
- "To spread the word": to tell people about something, to publicise it informally.
- We need to spread the word about the fundraiser. (We need to publicise the fundraiser.)
- "To get the message out": to successfully publicise information to the intended audience.
- Our campaign successfully got the message out to voters.
Verb
- make public
- She aired her opinions on welfare
- call attention to
- Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS