press officer

noun

press secretary

Meanings

nounpress officer (plural press officers)

plural press officers

  1. press secretary

    I followed this with a call in which a DfT press officer said he was urgently chasing answers and would reply later.

    2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 50
    1 more example

    But that's nothing compared to Victoria Station, where a million gallons a day are pumped away, most of it from the Tyburn brook. There's a pumping house underneath the station that an Underground press officer once refused to let me see, sadistically adding, 'It resembles the set of Phantom of the Opera '.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31

Synonyms & antonyms

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APA

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Chicago

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