to attract publicity

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• Publicity stunt — in Salt Lake City,1910: Little Hip the elephant, advertising newspaper theater …   Wikipedia

• publicity — pub‧lic‧i‧ty [pʌˈblɪsti] noun [uncountable] 1. the attention that someone or something gets from newspapers, television etc: • The case has received massive publicity. • Sales of the drug are falling due to adverse (= negative ) publicity about… …   Financial and business terms

• publicity — publicity, ballyhoo, promotion, propaganda are comparable when they mean either a systematic effort to mold public opinion in respect to something or the means or the matter used in such an effort. Each implies a specialized form of advertising.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• publicity stunt — pubˈlicity ˌstunt noun [countable] disapproving something that is only done in order to get publicity: • Cynics are saying that the couple s romance is a huge publicity stunt to help sell their new movie. * * * publicity stunt UK US noun [C]… …   Financial and business terms

• publicity machine — UK US noun [S] MARKETING ► the people and systems used to attract people s attention to a particular person, product, or organization, especially when they do this very effectively : »The Virgin publicity machine swung into action again to… …   Financial and business terms

• publicity — noun 1 media attention ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, extensive, greater, wide, widespread ▪ The papers have begun to give greater publicity to the campaign against GM food. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• attract — [[t]ətræ̱kt[/t]] ♦♦ attracts, attracting, attracted 1) VERB If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it. [V n] The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors... [V n adv/prep] Warm weather has… …   English dictionary

• publicity*/ — [pʌbˈlɪsəti] noun [U] attention in newspapers and on television a publicity campaign (= an attempt to get publicity)[/ex] Her behaviour during the filming attracted a lot of publicity.[/ex] • Words often used with publicity Adjectives often used… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• publicity — [[t]pʌblɪ̱sɪti[/t]] ♦♦♦ 1) N UNCOUNT Publicity is information or actions that are intended to attract the public s attention to someone or something. Much advance publicity wwas given to the talks. ...government publicity campaigns... It was all… …   English dictionary

• publicity */*/ — UK [pʌbˈlɪsətɪ] / US noun [uncountable] 1) attention in magazines, newspapers, or television Her behaviour during the filming attracted a lot of free publicity. a publicity campaign (= an attempt to get publicity) • Collocations: Adjectives… …   English dictionary

• attract — 01. The meat they ve been putting in the garbage is starting to [attract] rats. 02. His wife is very [attractive], and always gets lots of attention from the men at parties. 03. We put a rotten fish head in the trap to [attract] the shrimp. 04.… …   Grammatical examples in English