Publicise (Verb)
Meaning 1
Call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The company chose not to publicise the details of the takeover bid in order to avoid alerting their competitors.
- She asked her friends not to publicise the news of her engagement until she could tell her parents herself.
- The charity chose to publicise the plight of endangered animals in their new advertising campaign.
- He was careful not to publicise his involvement in the scandal for fear of being sued.
- The author refused to publicise her relationship with a politician to avoid drawing unwanted attention to her work.
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Meaning 2
Make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The charity used social media to publicise its new fund-raising campaign.
- Their plan was to publicise the details of the project to attract investors.
- She decided to publicise her concerns about the company's ethics.
- The company did not want to publicise the details of the merger just yet.
- The activist worked hard to publicise the plight of the homeless in her community.
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- Put Out
- Transmit
- Bulletin
- Disperse
- Propagate
- Air
- Issue
- Circulate
- Release
- Diffuse
- Broadcast
- Publish
- Circularise
- Hype
- Disseminate
- Spread
- Pass Around
- Beam
- Distribute