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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’." }