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want ad
want ad
noun
- informal.a classified advertisement in a newspaper, magazine, etc, for something wanted, such as property or employment
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Word History and Origins
Origin of want ad1
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Example Sentences
If you look at those want ads, it’s very much racialized and sexualized.
I was living in Colorado Springs and looking through want ads in the newspaper.
Whistling over his task, Mr. Chester soon evolved the following "Want Ad."
This description of the right sort of boy is put in the form of a "Want ad" in a newspaper.
He handed it to her, and his eyes lighted on the "want ad" columns.
Before the old man could answer they had reached the want-ad counter.
Thinking that Mr. Malcom might have gone back to the want-ad department, she hastily returned there.
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