press agent

or pressagent

noun

1. a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.

press agent

noun

1. a person employed to obtain favourable publicity, such as notices in newspapers, for an organization, actor, etc PA

Word History and Origins

Origin of press agent¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

You would drink it, then “take a little nap and after that you feel wonderful,” according to a press agent.

From The Daily Beast

By 1952 he could no longer afford a press agent and owed the IRS more than $100,000 in back taxes.

From The Daily Beast

She was married to a press agent and, supposedly, had an affair with Ethel Merman.

From The Daily Beast

And when the last clue is exhausted, and my press-agent is the same, I come back to appear in a new play, a well-known actress.

From Project Gutenberg

He had evidently been reading what the press agent had stuffed into the newspapers.

From Project Gutenberg

And suddenly she had met Josh Nebbins, press-agent for a local theater.

From Project Gutenberg

From now on you're going to be my press-agent—I mean Doctor Gilman's press-agent.

From Project Gutenberg

It was to be, in the expansive language of the press agent, "a cultured audience made up of the élite of the community."

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• publicist