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/ˈædvərtˌaɪzɪŋ/ Listen

noun

advertising n.

A communication publicly promoting some product or service.

Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advert

The business of advertising; the activity engaged in by professional publicists for pay.

Synonyms: advertizing, publicizing, the advertising profession, the advertising industry

verb

Advertise v. t. (past & past part. advertised; pres. part. advertising)

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. (Archaic) "I will advertise thee what this people shall do."

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

Synonyms: To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce; proclaim; promulgate; publish.

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Etymology of 'Advertising'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Advertising" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact, his torch, which in his confusion he had thrust glowing into his pocket the wrong way up. That one end must protrude, he knew, for the brand was longer than the pocket was deep. He had, of course, no idea at all that it was advertising his presence and ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... found that it was by no means so easy to collect advertisements, knowing, of course, nothing about it, and I tackled the job badly. Those who took up advertising space stipulated for an actual distribution of ten thousand copies of the Tissue each day, which had to be guaranteed and be carried out before they paid for the advertisements. I could see no other way out of the difficulty ...

— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon

... audience rather than in the effect on the ideals of the inner conscience of the artist or the composer. This lack of perceiving is too often shown by an over-interest in the material value of the effect. The pose of self-absorption, which some men, in the advertising business (and incidentally in the recital and composing business) put into their photographs or the portraits of themselves, while all dolled up in their purple-dressing-gowns, in their twofold wealth of golden hair, in their cissy-like postures over the piano keys—this pose ...

— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... from Berlin which pour out over the small towns and the open country. Of this printed matter, which is usually thrown aside unnoticed, Toni gathered the most voluminous examples, carefully preserved the envelopes, and sent them to Robert. Her husband did not notice of course that the same advertising matter came a second time nor that faint, scarce legible pencil marks picked out words here and there which, when read consecutively, made complete sense and differed very radically from the message which the printed slips were meant ...

— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann

... pecans. He will pay only a few cents more for the big paper-shell. The native pecan is as staple as butter and eggs. Every produce man buys them for the shelling plants. This leaves the big paper-shell to seek a special market at an advertising cost. Due to the small differential in the wholesale price of the native and the paper-shell, the larger native trees are no longer top-grafted but are encouraged in every ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report • Various

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