0 a picture, short film, song, etc. that tries to persuade people to buy a product or service, or a piece of text that tells people about a job, etc.: --
1 a paid notice that tells people about a product or service: --
2 a picture, sign, etc. that is used to make a product or service known and persuade people to buy it: --
A full-page advertisement costs £600 in her publication.
a television/newspaper/internet, etc. advertisement
an advertisement features/shows sth The advertisement features a father reading a bedtime story to his young daughter.
run an advertisement Like other blogs, his sites run advertisements for debt-reduction services.
place/put an advertisement somewhere They have started to place advertisements in popular magazines.
an advertisement for sth Her first modelling job was in an advertisement for baked beans.
3 a short piece of writing, for example in a newspaper or on the internet, that advertises a job with a particular company or organization: --
reply to/respond to/answer an advertisement When you answer an advertisement, look for words that ask directly about your skills and experience.
place/run an advertisement The second option was to place an advertisement of the vacancy.
an advertisement for sth He spotted a job advertisement for a reporter on a current affairs TV program.
Many different characters may perform the music in different contexts; it may be heard in association with animated continuity sequences, in cartoons and in advertisements.
Finally, in the classified advertisements markets both buyers and sellers competitively negotiate on a multilateral basis for limited resources.
I calculate a proportion because the raw number of advertisements varies wildly across races and thus some kind of standardization is in order.
He includes in this category: advertisements, songs, drama troops, comedy storytellers (rakugo), and comedy duos (manzai).
To raise awareness the committee distributed 10,000 circulars and spent £100 per week on advertisements in fourteen different newspapers.
By the late 1840s the form and motifs of traditional topographical advertisements were no longer reconcilable with the ambition and scale of new manufacturing practices.
Blockbusters have become part of the advertisement strategies of corporate sponsors.
The plan is unusual in that it contains an appendix of 19 page-long advertisements for local businesses, including retailers, shipping lines and engineering firms.
