public announcements
Statements for everyone
Public announcements are messages intended for general audiences rather than specific individuals.
The term covers everything from airport gate changes to emergency broadcasts to formal government declarations.
A public announcement system delivers spoken messages over loudspeakers.
In legal and business contexts, public announcements often refer to official disclosures required by regulation: The company made a public announcement about the merger.
- bulletinBrief public announcement
- news bulletinBrief broadcast announcement
- town crierOfficial public announcer
- town hall meetingGathering for civic dialogue
- proclamationFormal public announcement
recall notices · amber alert · silver alert · missing person · communiqué · evacuation orders · press release · emergency broadcast · emergency alert system · warning · alert · decree · advertisement · mandate · health advisory · weather warning · notification · ordinance
- civil defenseair raid shelters, civil defense, fallout shelters, air raid sirens, bomb shelters
- official noticesmemo, emergency alert, bulletin, legal notices, safety alert
- loud noisesnoise, bang, crash, roar, boom
- fire safetyfire alarms, fire drill, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire drills
- PRpress release, PR agency, media kit, PR campaign, talking points
- presidential documentsexecutive orders, proclamations, presidential decrees, memoranda, executive actions
public announcementsclassified information
Sensitive, access-restricted material
internal memos · private correspondence · privileged information · private letters · insider information
public announcementssmall talk
Polite trivial conversation
gossip · rumors · chitchat · hearsay · pillow talk