public relations

1. 1.

   a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution

   SynonymsPR

   Broaderpromotion

Questions about public relations

What does public relations mean?

public relations means "a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution".

What is another word for public relations?

Close synonyms include PR. 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 public relations a common word?

public relations 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.