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[ad-ver-tahy-zing]

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Ads

noun

the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.

paid announcements; advertisements.

the profession of planning, designing, and writing advertisements.

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Also, ad·ver·tiz·ing.

Origin:
1520–30; advertise + -ing¹

Related forms

coun·ter·ad·ver·tis·ing, noun

pro·ad·ver·tis·ing, adjective

pro·ad·ver·tiz·ing, adjective

self-ad·ver·tis·ing, adjective, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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The deadlines listed below apply only to corporate and image advertising.

Big advertising agencies want to sell firms their expertise in marketing.

It is unethical for a publication to put forward an obviously nonscientific article as actual content, rather than advertising.

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The deadlines listed below apply only to corporate and image advertising.

Big advertising agencies want to sell firms their expertise in marketing.

It is unethical for a publication to put forward an obviously nonscientific article as actual content, rather than advertising.

Even the advertising dollars have finally started trickling in.

At one point or another, everyone thinks they have a brilliant advertising idea.

The deadlines listed below apply only to display advertising.

The advertising industry is at long last showing definite signs of life.

Teenage drinking among girls is rising faster than it is among boys, and magazine advertising may be a big reason why.

Unfortunately, though, some people might think this is a bit of false advertising.

Pay-per-click advertising is big, big, big business.

The well-substantiated finding that adolescents go to bed later and later as they age is not the fault of advertising.

Uses for this technology would not, of course, be confined to advertising.

It s true that the article seems alarmists and is so openly advertising a new product.

Visionaries see a future for airships that goes far beyond advertising.

The digital music doubters could be right with the contention that advertising revenue can't cover the costs of licensing music.

And many of the newspapers have come to rely on advertising revenue as the primary financing mechanism.

Advertising revenue has wilted amid the global economic crisis.

The utilities aren't advertising it as would put us all in charge of our own energy future.

Internet advertising will be relatively unscathed in the downturn.

What they are measuring is activity on advertising exchanges, where companies bid to.

Inventors are coming up with many advertising novelties: small mechanical toys made by various companies to.

The site is free to students and is supported by advertising.

C'monblatant advertising on a scientific comment thread.

Internet advertising is growing rapidly for many and is beginning to offset some of the decline in print.

The consumer basically follows the buck, and the advertising.

Strayer's advertising and technology budgets were part of the appeal, he added.

In addition to that, the articles are often really advertising disguised as science fact.

But he seemed to have recognized that advertising itself was at a crossroads.

News gets free advertising by the citing university.

Advertising is showing only tentative signs of recovery.

Advertising and other means of creating mindsets does work to benefit those seeking to impose them for selfish reasons.

After all, it's really an advertising company that uses technology to draw in eyeballs.

Other companies help colleges create advertising materials to reach students abroad.

The first was its decision to let outsiders write programs and keep all the advertising revenues these might earn.

Hard to get past the first page of name-dropping and tourist advertising.

But it's not a recipe for quitting your day job, says the author of a new book on keyword advertising.

She is working on a brochure advertising that company's services.

And advertising has migrated online more quickly than elsewhere.

After making a monumental effort in product formulation and advertising for low-salt products, their efforts failed.

Google, which runs the net's biggest online advertising and tracking platform, says the meaning of the flag is too vague.

Now the book is press and the publisher is advertising it and my copies are being shipped this month.

What is new here is e-mail, not cross-subsidies or advertising.

He never mentions how much revenue advertising brings in.

The issues are transparency and truth in advertising.

Yet it is also possible that advertising will begin to recover from severely depressed levels.

The authors contend that the false advertising distorts the public's perception.

The future of advertising isn't writing better slogans or using cool photography or video.

Icon buys these services in advance, when it thinks that advertising space and airline tickets are cheap.

Hell, anyone who works in marketing and advertising knows that if you repeat a message often enough, it gets picked up.

Finally, to be profitable for publishers, apps will need to include advertising.

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verb (used with object)

to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.

to give information to the public about; announce publicly in a newspaper, on radio or television, etc.: to advertise a reward.

to call attention to, in a boastful or ostentatious manner: Stop advertising yourself!

Obsolete. to give notice, advice, or information to; inform: I advertised him of my intention.

Obsolete. to admonish; warn.

verb (used without object)

to ask for something by placing a notice in a newspaper, over radio or television, etc.: to advertise for a house to rent.

to offer goods for sale or rent, solicit funds, etc., by means of advertisements: It pays to advertise.

Cards.

Poker. to bluff so as to make the bluff obvious.

Rummy. to discard a card in order to induce an opponent to discard one of the same suit or denomination.

Also, advertize.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English advertisen < Middle French avertiss-, long stem of avertir < Vulgar Latin *advertire, Latin advertere to advert¹; the expected Middle English *advertishen probably conformed to advertisement or the suffix -ize

Related forms

ad·ver·tis·a·ble

[ad-ver-tahy-zuh-buh

l, ad-ver-tahy-] , adjective

ad·ver·tis·er, noun

o·ver·ad·ver·tise, verb, -tised, -tis·ing.

pre·ad·ver·tise, verb, -tised, -tis·ing.

pre·ad·ver·tis·er, noun

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re·ad·ver·tise, verb, -tised, -tis·ing.

un·ad·ver·tised, adjective

well-ad·ver·tised, adjective

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World English Dictionary

advertising or sometimes (US) advertizing (ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ)

—n
1.	the promotion of goods or services for sale through impersonal media, such as radio or television
2.	the business that specializes in creating such publicity
3.	advertisements collectively; publicity

advertizing or sometimes (US) advertizing

—n

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Word Origin & History

advertise

early 15c., "to take notice of," from M.Fr. advertiss-, prp. stem of a(d)vertir "to warn," from L. advertere "turn toward," from ad- "toward" + vertere "to turn" see versus). Sense shifted to "to give notice to others, warn" (late 15c.) by influence of

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advertisement. Original meaning remains in advert "to give attention to."

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