noun [U]
1 the attention that is given to sb/sth by newspapers, television, etc:
good / bad / adverse publicity * There has been a great deal of publicity surrounding his disappearance. * The trial took place amid a blaze of (= a lot of) publicity.
2 the business of attracting the attention of the public to sth/sb; the things that are done to attract attention:
She works in publicity. * There has been a lot of advance publicity for her new film. * publicity material * a publicity campaign * The band dressed up as the Beatles as a publicity stunt. * He's in charge of the publicity for next year's festival.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for publicity is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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