advertising

Definition

  • noun: published or broadcast advertisements
  • noun: the action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements
  • synonyms: ad, advertisement, advert

Examples

  • She works for an 'advertising agency' [=('chiefly US') 'ad agency'] in New York.

  • They are 'advertising' the new edition of the book.

  • These is a lot of 'advertising' in that magazine.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I mean, that thing with the old man, that was pretty unexpected. Wish I could figure out some way we could break it up. You know, in advertising... I told you I worked in an agency? Some pretty strange people work there. Well, not strange, really. I guess it's just they have peculiar ways (..)
    1957 12 Angry Men