verb

• 1Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance.

  ‘a billboard advertising beer’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The event was advertised as family friendly with many workshops for both beginner and advanced practitioner.’
  • ‘Although the service was advertised as being ‘free’ it was being charged at 38p per minute.’
  • ‘You are required to advertise your product or service and the terms of the sale honestly and accurately.’
  • ‘The detective said the prostitution service was advertised as an an escort service.’
  • ‘It is all part of the national programme being advertised as Power to Change.’
  • ‘This event is advertised as a family day out with opportunities to watch skilled aviation displays and see exciting jet aircraft.’
  • ‘The lecture's organizers have said the lecture was clearly advertised as a series of yarns.’
  • ‘Six out of ten of those quizzed said they mistrusted brands that used pop-ups to advertise their products and services.’
  • ‘It's about reaching of the widest possible audience we can to advertise our products and services.’
  • ‘The conference was advertised as being about gender and identity in South China.’
  • ‘There are no billboards advertising Western products.’
  • ‘Eventually, streaming video should prove of great use in promoting and advertising products on the Web.’
  • ‘Numerous billboards advertising this event have been rented.’
  • ‘They encourage the use of medicines without any prescription by advertising their products on television and radio.’
  • ‘Coating products are promoted and advertised as graffiti-resistant, but what does that really mean?’
  • ‘People who want to promote or advertise a product or brand are the most interested.’
  • ‘Recognising the importance of advertising a public event became the impetus for two simultaneous activities.’
  • ‘Each event will be advertised as soon as they are arranged.’
  • ‘Products that are advertised as cures for colic do not help.’
  • ‘Web sites are all about advertising products, ideas and services.’

  1. 1.1Publicize information about (a vacancy)
     ‘for every job we advertise we get a hundred applicants’
     More example sentences

     • ‘he advertised for dancers in the trade papers’
     • ‘Mrs Darlington got the job after the town council advertised the vacancy last summer.’
     • ‘Frank, 41, applied for the post when the parish council advertised two vacancies.’
     • ‘So much so that the English Golf Union has got a page on its website which advertises such vacancies.’
     • ‘And she also set-up a multi-lingual website to help advertise vacancies.’
     • ‘They do not advertise these vacancies, but family and friends are appointed.’
     • ‘Before the trip the agency will advertise the vacancies in all major Australian cities.’
     • ‘Our members will one week be asking employers to advertise vacancies and the next they'll be asking for a job.’
     • ‘However, it has struggled to recruit the 550 staff it needs in its new location, despite advertising the vacancies.’
     • ‘Once this was done a provincial circular would be issued advertising vacancies for internal recruitment.’
     • ‘The company already advertises vacancies here on its website.’
     • ‘Recruitment and retention activities are occurring but having no real impact on vacancies being advertised.’
     • ‘They have already advertised for a Principal and will advertise a teaching post once the Principal has been appointed.’
     • ‘The post is being advertised for the third time in less than a year.’
     • ‘I only found one job that advertised for an evolutionary psychologist.’
     • ‘Mr Taylor pointed out it should have been advertised for the over-60s.’
     • ‘Ms Gordon explained that that house would be advertised for tender in the near future.’
     • ‘New four-bedroom semis are now being advertised for £85,000, down from £92,000 last August.’
     • ‘They were advertised for the princely sum of $16.95 and even a young squirt like me could afford one at that price.’
     • ‘Not a single place was advertised for rent at under £200 a week-and that gets a studio or a one-bedroom flat.’
     • ‘Recreational activities and evening classes are advertised for the longer nights approaching.’
     Synonyms

     publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate

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  2. 1.2Make (a quality or fact) known.
     ‘Meryl coughed briefly to advertise her presence’
     More example sentences

     • ‘We have installed additional signs on the road and done everything possible to advertise the fact that the speed limit has been reduced.’
     • ‘You are passionate and adventurous, however, you do not go around advertising these qualities.’
     • ‘No one bothered advertising the fact that, in order to live, I need to keep breathing.’
     • ‘Remove labels from new trees and shrubs as this advertises the fact that they are new and easy to remove.’
     • ‘If a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. - Woodrow Wilson’
     • ‘He seems reluctant to advertise the fact he has a cousin from France.’
     • ‘If you need to escape an oppressive regime, can you afford to advertise that fact by filling out an asylum claim in the street?’
     • ‘In order to cope with this dilemma, the authorities decided to remove the signs on Friday, but not to advertise the fact.’
     • ‘Regis also took the opportunity to advertise the quality of the police department that he headed.’
     • ‘Why did this letter writer not take out a full page advertisement to advertise this fact?’
     • ‘I didn't want to advertise the fact that we'd be away from the flat for a while.’
     • ‘They would also have to pay to advertise the fact they would be applying for the licence.’
     • ‘She was vague about the reasons, but she didn't want to advertise the fact I was intelligent.’
     • ‘A lot of people don't want to advertise the fact that they have a personal trainer.’
     • ‘I wore only a pair of jeans and a t-shirt advertising the fact that I had given blood at the last blood drive.’
     • ‘That was Jessica's voice, slightly nasal, desperately advertising the fact that any pity would be welcome.’
     • ‘It's not my responsibility to advertise the fact that I am ruthless.’
     • ‘I didn't even find out that we had any titles in our family until I was about eight or nine, they hated to advertise that fact.’
     • ‘She didn't advertise the fact that she was listening to only him, but she wanted to.’
     • ‘It said it wants to advertise this fact in a more tangible way hence the commission's presence at the show.’
  3. 1.3archaic Notify (someone) of something.
     ‘some prisoners advertised the French of this terrible danger’
     More example sentences

     • ‘He was advertised the French army in Italy had had an overthrow.’
     • ‘The captains of the guards advertised the Emperor of it, who sent out scouts.’