Advertising
['ædvətaɪzɪŋ] or ['ædvɚ'taɪzɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services.
Checker: Sinclair--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advertise
Editor: Martin
Examples
- The quarters were small, the staff was composed of two men, and the entire work was confined to making photographs of the cars and parts for advertising literature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I know nothing about advertising. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now that a reliable formula is at hand a quantity of this Wonder Liniment can be prepared at a minimum cost without paying for bottles, labels, advertising, salaries, rents, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- And as to advertising the house, I think it would be perfectly degrading to you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such shows were the best possible form of advertising, but in time they degenerated into absurd performances. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He believed in liberal advertising, and he had posters printed with a picture of the reaper at the top, and below it a formal guarantee warranting the machine’s performance absolutely. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Fifty were quickly built and fully described in advertising for mechanics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Advertising, for example, would be nothing but gigantic and systematic lying if almost everybody didn't know that it was. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Bless your heart, old fellow, it's better than all the advertising in the world. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And advertising in the papers that a Gentlewoman of agreeable manners, and accustomed to the best society, was anxious to, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Modern advertising would not have been possible without photo-engraving. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He lost little by it, and in the long run the wide-spread advertising of this policy of business proved an invaluable asset. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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