单词 | overpublicize |
释义 | overpublicizev. transitive. To publicize excessively; to give undue importance to by publicizing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)] > publicize or bring to public notice > over-publicize overexpose1864 overpublicize1932 1932 Washington Post 2 Apr. 13/3 If ordinary ball players..are built up and overpublicized, the result, contrary to helping the club, is damaging. 1943 H. C. Cassidy Moscow Dateline xix. 332 The Soviet command wanted to make the battle real and personal for the Russian people, but did not want to overpublicize any single leader among the top-flight generals of the Red army. 1957 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1959) xv. 132 Admittedly the drummer today is over-publicized, over-featured and over-praised in proportion to the role he should play as a member of an ensemble. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating xii. 252 It is unfortunate that MT (standard abbreviation for machine translation) has been over-publicized. 1997 People Managem. (Nexis) 3 26 The Midland Bank's scheme is similar, except that..Hallam is anxious not to overpublicise it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1932 |
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