press agentn.
/ˈprɛs ˌeɪdʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈprɛs ˌeɪdʒ(ə)nt/ A person employed to organize advertising and publicity in the press on behalf of an organization or person.
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press agent1814
press secretary1880
publicist1904
press officer1915
publicitor1935
flack1946
huckster1946
flackman1966
promo man1977
1814 Times 19 Dec. 2/2 That same Alexander..whom all the press agents of Madison and his faction were in the daily habit of reviling.
1883 Railway Age 25 Jan. 46/3 We desire to observe that the associate press agent..is an ass.
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Uneasy Money x. 114 Roscoe Sherriff, her press agent.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxi. 213 Today's press agent regards the newspaper as a ventriloquist does his dummy.
2005 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. 13 Starting out as a press agent and a booker..he became a protege of Jules Stein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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