public-relations

See also: public relations

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

public-relations (not comparable)

1. public relations (in attributive use)
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     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 pleading is public-relations bluster.