To raise awareness is to make more people know that something exists. A stall in a shopping centre, a ribbon, a walk in the rain for a charity.
It takes of: raise awareness of the illness, of the risks, of what the bill actually says. No article. The phrase belongs to campaigns and press releases, and it has taken a certain amount of mockery for being what you do instead of something more useful — worth knowing before you use it, because a reader may hear the joke as well as the meaning.
1phraseraise awarenessTo make more people know about something.
“The walk is meant to raise awareness of the illness.”
raise awareness is an act of publicity.
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