单词 | publicize |
释义 | publicize (once / 4092 pages) v When you publicize something, you let the whole world know about it. The president might hold a press conference to publicize a new policy, or you might use Facebook to publicize your new relationship status. To make something very widely known, or to make an official announcement about it, is to publicize it. Companies publicize new products and sale prices, and politicians publicize the missteps and bad policies of their opponents. The verb publicize was first used at the beginning of the twentieth century, combining public, with its Latin root of publicus, "of the people, common, or general," and the verb-making suffix ize. WORD FAMILYpublicize: publicized, publicizer, publicizes, publicizing+/public: nonpublic, publically, publicise, publicity, publicize, publicly, publics, semipublic/publicise: publicised, publiciser, publicising/publicist: publicists/publicity: publicist, publicities/publicizer: publicizers/semipublic: semipublicly USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, she chose to publicize that which most stars try to hide. Time(Dec 28, 2016) Organizers say they haven’t publicized the route for security reasons. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) Carolina announced a delay on Twitter about 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of 7 p.m., then publicized the postponement around 8:45 p.m. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1v make public Syn|Hypo|Hyper air, bare, publicise hype publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner bulletinmake public by bulletin bring out, issue, publish, put out, releaseprepare and issue for public distribution or sale broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spreadcause to become widely known air, beam, broadcast, send, transmitbroadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television editsupervise the publication of podcastdistribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer satellitebroadcast or disseminate via satellite sportscastbroadcast a sports event sowintroduce into an environment telecast, televisebroadcast via television generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarizecater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use interrogatetransmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication rebroadcast, rerunbroadcast again, as of a film carry, runinclude as the content; broadcast or publicize tell let something be known 2v call attention to Syn|Hypo|Hyper advertise, advertize, publicise headline publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline ballyhooadvertize noisily or blatantly announce, denote make known; make an announcement |
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