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Webster 1828 Edition


Advertising

ADVERTI'SING

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ppr.
1.
Informing; giving notice; publishing notice.
2.
a. Furnishing advertisements; as, advertising customers.
3.
In the sense of monitory, or active in giving intelligence, as used by Shakespeare. [Not now used.]

Definition 2024


advertising

advertising

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advertising

  1. present participle of advertise

Noun

advertising (countable and uncountable, plural advertisings)

  1. Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
    • Sir Walter Besant
      Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about [] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

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