press conference

1. 1.

   a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity

   Synonymsnews conference

   Broaderconference

   Narrowerbackgrounder

Questions about press conference

What does press conference mean?

press conference means "a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity".

What is another word for press conference?

Close synonyms include news conference. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is press conference a common word?

press conference is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.