0 past simple and past participle of advertise
1 to make something known generally or in public, especially in order to sell it:
The concert was well enough advertised but ticket sales were poor.
Teaching posts are advertised in Tuesday's edition of the paper.
The market for those dreadful compilation records you see advertised on TV is just another of life's great mysteries.
Private and especially corporate sponsors might be courted, and once a sponsor is found, the corporation's products would be advertised in a well-publicised exhibition.
They established plots at their experimental farm and advertised the concept.
The aim of the paper is to discuss one recent use of the open-question challenge and show that it fails in its advertised aim.