"public relations" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Since the early twentieth century. The term gained popularity as a euphemism for propaganda after that originally neutral term acquired a negative connotation during the political upheavals of the early twentieth century. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} public relations (uncountable)
  1. The professional dissemination and management of information by a person or an organization to the public with the purpose of creating a favorable public image. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Public relations Translations (profession): عَلَاقَات عَامَّة (ʕalāqāt ʕāmma) [feminine, plural] (Arabic), relacions públiques [feminine, plural] (Catalan), 公共關係 (Chinese Mandarin), 公共关系 (gōnggòng guānxì) (Chinese Mandarin), PR (Chinese Mandarin), 公關 (Chinese Mandarin), 公关 (gōngguān) (Chinese Mandarin), suhdetoiminta (Finnish), tiedotus- ja suhdetoiminta (Finnish), relations publiques [feminine, plural] (French), PR (French), RP (French), საზოგადოებასთან ურთიერთობა (sazogadoebastan urtiertoba) (Georgian), პიარი (ṗiari) (Georgian), Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [feminine] (German), ÖA [feminine] (German), Public Relations [plural] (German), PR [feminine] (German), δημόσιες σχέσεις (dimósies schéseis) [feminine, plural] (Greek), יחסי ציבור (Hebrew), יַחֲסֵי צִבּוּר (yakhasé tsibúr) [masculine, plural] (Hebrew), सार्वजनिक संबंध (sārvajnik sambandh) (Hindi), पब्लिक रिलेशन्स (pablik rileśans) (Hindi), PR (Hindi), almannatengsl [feminine] (Icelandic), caidreamh poiblí [masculine] (Irish), パブリック・リレーションズ (paburikku-rirēshonzu) (Japanese), PR (pī-āru) (Japanese), ピー・アール (pī-āru) (Japanese), қоғаммен қарым-қатынас (qoğammen qarym-qatynas) (Kazakh), 홍보 (hongbo) (Korean), PR (piareu) (Korean), روابط عمومی (Persian), PR (Persian), public relations [masculine, plural] (Polish), PR [masculine] (Polish), relações públicas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), relații publice [feminine, plural] (Romanian), свя́зи с обще́ственностью (svjázi s obščéstvennostʹju) [feminine, plural] (Russian), PR [masculine] (Russian), пиа́р (piár) [masculine] (Russian), dàimh phoblach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), relaciones públicas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), RRPP (Spanish), PR [common-gender] (Swedish), pakikitungong-madla (Tagalog), pakikisamang-madla (Tagalog), ประชาสัมพันธ์ (bprà-chaa-sǎm-pan) (Thai), พีอาร์ (pii-aa) (Thai), PR (Turkish), cysylltiadau cyhoeddus [masculine, plural] (Welsh)
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  2. (by extension, metonymically) The favorability of the public image of a person or organization. Tags: broadly, metonymically, uncountable Categories (topical): Public relations
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: outreach, PR [initialism] Derived forms: public-relations (english: in attributive, adjectival use)

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