press officer

English

Noun

press officer (plural press officers)

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

     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 '.

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

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

References

• “press officer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.