advisory

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Able to give advice.

   • The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
2. 2

   Containing advice

   Containing advice; advising.

   • The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.
3. 3

   A warning.

   • The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
   • Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.
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   1. 4

      Supervision by an advisor.

      • Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.
      • After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.

The neighborhood

• neighboradviso
• neighboraviso
• neighborresolution advisory
• neighbortraffic advisory