"plugola" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "plug + -ola",
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  "etymology_text": "From plug + -ola. Compare to payola.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plugolas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Susan Tyler Eastman, Douglas A. Ferguson, Robert A. Klein, editors, Media Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable, and the Internet, page 22",
          "text": "Both radio and television management must be watchful for instances of staff payola and plugola.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Carey L Higgins, Gerald Sussman, edited by Gibson & Lowes, Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context, page 151",
          "text": "Portland's TV stations regularly employ plugola in news programming as a way of promoting parent network programming […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 4, Paul Farhi, The Washington Post",
          "text": "It’s unclear just how widespread such “plugola” schemes are now. But an FCC report, published in June, cited a 2010 Pew survey in which 24 percent of local TV news executives reported “a blurring of lines between advertising and news.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television."
      ],
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          "Undeclared",
          "undeclared"
        ],
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          "illicit",
          "illicit"
        ],
        [
          "publicity",
          "publicity"
        ],
        [
          "product",
          "product"
        ],
        [
          "promotion",
          "promotion"
        ],
        [
          "television",
          "television"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly US) Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television."
      ],
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        "US",
        "informal",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/plʌˈɡoʊlə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/plʌˈɡəʊlə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊlə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plugola"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From plug + -ola. Compare to payola.",
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    {
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊlə",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊlə/3 syllables"
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Susan Tyler Eastman, Douglas A. Ferguson, Robert A. Klein, editors, Media Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable, and the Internet, page 22",
          "text": "Both radio and television management must be watchful for instances of staff payola and plugola.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Carey L Higgins, Gerald Sussman, edited by Gibson & Lowes, Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context, page 151",
          "text": "Portland's TV stations regularly employ plugola in news programming as a way of promoting parent network programming […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 4, Paul Farhi, The Washington Post",
          "text": "It’s unclear just how widespread such “plugola” schemes are now. But an FCC report, published in June, cited a 2010 Pew survey in which 24 percent of local TV news executives reported “a blurring of lines between advertising and news.”",
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        "Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television."
      ],
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          "Undeclared",
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          "illicit",
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        ],
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          "publicity",
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        ],
        [
          "product",
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        ],
        [
          "promotion",
          "promotion"
        ],
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          "television",
          "television"
        ]
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        "(informal, chiefly US) Undeclared or illicit publicity or product promotion, especially on radio or television."
      ],
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      ]
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "plugola"
}