advert

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An advertisement, an ad.

   • This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
   • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
2. 2

   To take notice, to pay attention (to).

   • At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.
3. 3

   To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).

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   1. 4

      To call attention, refer (to).

      • ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’
      • As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord.

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