ADJ
- considerable, enormous, extensive, greater, wide, widespread
- The papers have begun to give greater publicity to the campaign against GM food
- maximum
- The release of the report was timed to generate maximum publicity
- favourable, good, positive
- adverse, bad, negative, unfavourable, unwelcome
- free
- international, local, national
VERB + PUBLICITY
- give sb/sth
- gain, get, receive
- attract, generate
- seek
- avoid, shun
PUBLICITY + VERB
- surround sth
- There was a lot of negative publicity surrounding the film
PREP
- ~ about
- There has been a lot of unfavourable publicity about the hospital
- ~ for
- Taking part in the event will be good publicity for our school
- ~ over
- The firm had received bad publicity over a defective product
PHRASES
- amid/amidst a storm of publicity
- The chairman resigned amid a storm of publicity over the bonus payments
- a blaze of publicity
- The film stars were married in a blaze of publicity
- the glare of publicity
- He carried on his life in the full glare of publicity
PUBLICITY + NOUN
- material, photograph, shot
- He's better-looking in his publicity shots than he is in real life
- campaign
- stunt
- The actress denied that her marriage was just a publicity stunt
- agent, officer
- machine
- The record company's publicity machine was working flat out
PREP
- ~ about
- I read some publicity about vaccinations while waiting my turn at the doctor's
- ~ for
- There have been months of advance publicity for the show
