public relations

See also: public-relations

English

Noun

public relations (uncountable)

1. Communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image; commonly referred to as PR.
   • Edward Bernays, in the documentary The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002):

     Propaganda got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it [in WWI]. So what I did was to try to find some other words. So we found the words counsel on public relations.

Synonyms

• outreach

Derived terms

• public-relations (in attributive, adjectival use)

Translations

profession

• Arabic: عَلَاقَات عَامَّة f pl (ʿalaqāt ʿāmma), PR
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公共關係／公共关系 (zh), 公共关系 (zh) (gōnggòng guānxì), PR (zh), 公關／公关 (zh) (gōngguān), 公关 (zh) (gōngguān)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: suhdetoiminta, tiedotus- ja suhdetoiminta
• French: relations publiques (fr) f pl, PR (fr), RP (fr)
• German: Öffentlichkeitsarbeit f, ÖA f, Public Relations pl, PR (de) f
• Hebrew: יחסי ציבור (he)
• Hindi: सार्वजनिक संबंध (sārvajnik sambandh), पब्लिक रिलेशन्स (pablik rileśans), PR
• Icelandic: almannatengsl f
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• Japanese: パブリック・リレーションズ (paburikku-rirēshonzu), PR (pī-āru), ピー・アール (pī-āru)
• Korean: 홍보 (ko) (hongbo), PR (piareu)
• Persian: روابط عمومی, PR
• Portuguese: relações públicas (pt) f pl
• Russian: свя́зи с обще́ственностью f pl (svjázi s obščéstvennostʹju), PR m, пиа́р (ru) m (piár)
• Scottish Gaelic: dàimh phoblach f
• Spanish: relaciones públicas f pl, RRPP
• Tagalog: pakikitungong-madla, pakikisamang-madla
• Thai: การประชาสัมพันธ์ (gaan bpràchaa sămpan), PR (PR)