Meaning & use
spin room
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Meaning
nouncountable
A room or area where political spokespeople talk to journalists after a debate or event, trying to make their side look good.
Grammar: Countable: use 'a spin room' or 'the spin room'; plural 'spin rooms'.
Patterns
- in the spin room
- the spin room after a debate
After the debate, reporters rushed to the spin room to hear what each campaign had to say.
The spin room was crowded with aides and journalists trying to shape the story.
She was a senior adviser and spent most of the night working the spin room.
Word forms
| plural | spin rooms |
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Common combinations
- work the spin room
- The candidate's team worked the spin room hard after the debate.
- in the spin room
- He was in the spin room giving interviews to several networks.
- spin room operation
- The campaign set up a spin room operation to manage the media narrative.
Synonyms and how they differ
- press room
- A press room is a general area for journalists to work or receive information, not specifically a place for spinning a political message.
Word family
- spin noun
- The act of presenting information in a way that favors a particular side.
- spin doctor noun
- A person whose job is to present political information favorably.
Commonly confused: spin room or spin doctor?
spin room vs spin doctor
A spin doctor is a person, while a spin room is the place where such people work with journalists.
Practice
After the election debate, the candidates' advisers went to the ______ to talk to reporters.
Choose one answer.
The place where advisers talk to journalists is the spin room. 'Spin doctor' is a person, not a place; 'spin-off' is a related product or show; 'spinach' is a vegetable.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “spin room”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.