spinmeister

1. 1.

   a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person

   “his title is Director of Communications but he is just a spin doctor”

   Synonymsspin doctor

   Broaderpublic relations person

Other forms of spinmeister

plural

spinmeisters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spinmeister

What does spinmeister mean?

spinmeister means "a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person".

How many syllables are in spinmeister?

spinmeister has 3 syllables: spin-mei-ster. The stress falls on "spin".

What is another word for spinmeister?

Close synonyms include spin doctor. 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 spinmeister a common word?

spinmeister 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.