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house organ
noun
: a periodical distributed by a business concern among its employees, sales personnel, or customers
Examples of house organ in a Sentence
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And in recent months, Musk has become one of Trump’s biggest donors and most energetic supporters, turning X into an unofficial house organ for his campaign.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Since the seventies, Commentary had been the house organ of disgruntled neoconservatives; by the nineties, left-leaning Democrats who were stalwart on Israel found a haven at The New Republic.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Or the writer of another letter to his house organ WSJ calling for antitrust action against the ESG movement?
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 3 June 2022
The mainstream media is essentially a house organ for the left.
—Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
Then there was October, which was almost like your house organ [a critical theory journal, edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson and Douglas Crimp].
—New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
In 1843, a parish priest in Roquemaure, France, asked a local poet named Placide Cappeau to write some verse celebrating the renovation of the house organ at the town's Catholic church.
—Bill Adler, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
Many conservatives are probably worried that a wounded Trump might use a dolchstoss story to popularize some alternative to the institutional conservative movement and its house organ, Fox News.
—Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Nov. 2020
Screened a few silent movies and have had accompaniment from the Mighty Wurlitzer [house organ].
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 9 Sep. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1886, in the meaning defined above
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“House organ.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20organ. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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