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{
"term": "advertisement",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or service",
"sensetop": "advertisement for something",
"labels": "informalalso British English, informal(especially British English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a newspaper/television advertisement"
},
{
"text": "an online advertisement"
},
{
"text": "You can place an advertisement on a classifieds website."
},
{
"text": "Television and radio refused to carry advertisements for the album.",
"contextForm": "advertisement for something"
},
{
"text": "We placed advertisements in a number of national newspapers."
},
{
"text": "She ran a full-page advertisement on the back page of the newspaper."
}
],
"topics": ["TV, radio and news", "Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["good", "discreet", "misleading"],
"verb + advertisement": ["place", "put", "take out"],
"adverb": ["appear", "say something", "show something"],
"preposition": ["in a/the advertisement", "advertisement for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an example of something that shows its good qualities",
"sensetop": "advertisement for something",
"labels": "British English also",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Dirty streets and homelessness are no advertisement for a prosperous society."
},
{
"text": "He's a walking advertisement for healthy living."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the act of advertising something and making it public",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We are employing an assistant to help with the advertisement of the group’s activities."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/",
"audio": "ad/advertisement/advertisement__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt/",
"audio": "ad/advertisement/advertisement__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a statement calling attention to something): from Old French advertissement, from the verb advertir from Latin advertere ‘turn towards’, from ad- ‘to’ + vertere ‘to turn’.The original sense was ‘turn one's attention to’, later ‘bring to someone's attention’."
}