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press release

Word definitions for press release in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A press release , news release , media release , press statement or video release is a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy. Typically, they are mailed, faxed ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An official written statement that is sent to the media so that it can be publicized.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation [syn: handout , release ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cotton Fitzsimmons picked up a press release and rolled it up tight, like a shillelagh. ▪ Every press release should include a quotable, provocative statement from an officer or committee member of the organization involved. ...

Usage examples of press release.

They originally claimed that it weighed 1,200 pounds, upgraded that figure to 2,000 pounds, then to 4,000 pounds, and finally, they issued a press release stating that the bomb weighed 4800 pounds.

Navy, even gutted and downsized as it was, could handle any three other navies in the world in less time than it would take the enemies to assemble their forces and send out a press release of their malicious intent.

The elevator sign this morning read: NEW PRESS RELEASE BY THE FDA: RED MEAT IS NOT BAD FOR YOU.

He took the call in an empty office he later found out belonged to the base press officer who had issued the offending press release.

We're saving the press release for tomorrow morning, when we have more information.

Ordinarily, terrorists boasted widely of what they did, however odious the act, and at CIA and elsewhere they'd waited for fifteen hours for the press release.