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Answer for the clue "PR person ", 9 letters:
publicist

Word definitions for publicist in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A publicist is a person whose job it is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure , especially a celebrity , a business , or for a work such as a book , film or album . Most top-level publicists work in private practice, handling multiple clients. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, "person learned in public law or the law of nations," from public (adj.) + -ist . Also from 1795 in English as "writer on current topics," from French publiciste ; in either case a hybrid.\n\nThen crept in the "loose" usage. Anybody who wrote or spoke ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who publicizes [syn: publicizer , publiciser ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All fabricated by his publicists, before his new movie came out. ▪ Claire Raskind, publicist for Fish Tale Productions, which just finished shooting the film, declined comment. ▪ Clive James says they can only get blander because ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Publicist \Pub"li*cist\, n. [Cf. F. publiciste.] A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc. The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person whose job is to publicize information or events; a publicity agent; a public relations agent or worker 2 A journalist, often a commentator, who focusses on politics 3 (''Rare/obsolescent'') A scholar of public law, especially public international ...

Usage examples of publicist.

If we were now to have a broader nationality as the result of our civil struggle, it was apparent to the mass of men, as well as to the publicist and statesman, that citizenship should be placed on unquestionable ground--on ground so plain that the humblest man who should inherit its protections would comprehend the extent and significance of his title.

She wondered if she should delay the teardown until she got hold of a Stryker publicist.

The publicist is there too, and she and the agent look out the tinted windows while the trainer sharpens a needle against the scratch pad of a matchbook and shoots me up with 50 milligrams of Laurabolin.

We tried a prix fixe menu, a Sunday night buffet, we advertised, we hired a publicist.

The team's always dogging me, the publicist, the schedulers, the personal fitness trainer, the orthodontist, the dermatologist, the dietician.

Some clerk on the incoming mail team directs it to an assistant media interface director who hands it off to a low-level publicist who routes it to the daytime scheduler who slips it onto my breakfast tray in the hotel suite.

We took a few hits in the market when he disappeared but I authorized a publicist to work on shoring up our image of being solid and it seems to have worked.