press avail

noun

noun

Etymology Shortening of press availability, itself a shortening of "press availability session". First recorded in early 1990s.

Government, Journalism, Media, Politics US Clipped compound of press availability.

"There won't be a press avail," she explained briskly about Clinton's first stop at - where else - the Italian Market. "It'll basically be a photo op."1992 April 18, Craig R. McCoy, “A Campaign Juggernaut Jaunts Through Phila.”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, page A4:

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