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public-relations

public-relations adjective: public relations (in attributive use).

Adjective

public-relations (not comparable)

  1. public relations (in attributive use)
    • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their...2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70

Origin of public-relations

public relations, with a hyphen added to change a noun phrase into an adjective phrase

Questions about public-relations

What does public-relations mean?
Public-relations means public relations (in attributive use).
What part of speech is public-relations?
Public-relations is an adjective.

Words near public-relations in the dictionary

  1. public-houses
  2. public-key cryptography
  3. public-minded
  4. public-private partnership
  5. public-private partnerships
  6. public-relations
  7. public-school
  8. public-schools
  9. public-sector
  10. public-service announcement
  11. public-service announcements

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