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spread the word (third-person singular simple present spreads the word, present participle spreading the word, simple past and past participle spread the word)

  1. (idiomatic) To tell a lot of people; to inform as many people as one can.
    Coordinate terms: preach, campaign, pass on
    • 2006, Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 424:
      A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends.

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