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advertising Definition

ad·ver·tis·ing (ad′vər tīz′iŋ)

noun

  1. printed or broadcast matter that advertises; advertisements collectively
  2. the business or occupation of preparing and issuing advertisements
advertising Synonyms

advertising

n.

  1. Calling goods to public attention

    promotion, promoting, publicity, publicizing, circularization, billing, posting, placarding, announcing, displaying, broadcasting, advocacy, Madison Avenue, ballyhooing*, plugging*, pushing*, buildup*, drumbeating*, puffery*, hype*, hucksterism*; see also publicity 3.

  2. Anything intended to advertise

    announcement, window display, exhibit; see advertisement 1, 2.

advertising Usage Examples

Object

  • fact: Post signs advertising the fact that all items have been security marked.
advertising Quotes

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldöin fugitive dreams and illusions.

—Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

The moral of all this†is that we have the kind of advertising we deserve.

—Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh)

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused bya constant flow of fraudulent advertising isno trivial thing.There ismorethan one way to conquer a country.

—Chandler, Raymond

It is the professional duty of the advertising agent to conceal his artifice.When Aeschines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks', but when Demosthenes spoke, they said 'Let us march against Philip.'

—Ogilvy, David

Manya small thing has beenmade large by theright kind of advertising.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

—Stefansson,Vilhjalmur