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• expert/practical/professional/medical advice
• we were advised to seek legal advice.
• the service offers information and advice on possible careers.
• ask your teacher's advice on how to prepare for the exam.

advice

1. an opinion or a suggestion about what somebody should do in a particular situation
• expert/practical/professional/medical advice
• We were advised to seek legal advice.
• The service offers information and advice on possible careers.
• Ask your teacher's advice on how to prepare for the exam.
• Ask your teacher for advice on how to prepare for the exam.
• They give good advice to parents about managing difficult behaviour.
• We were advised to seek advice from an expert.
• Let me give you a piece of advice.
• A word of advice. Don't wear that dress.
• Take my advice. Don't do it.
• Follow your doctor's advice.
• I went there on the advice of a friend.
• I chose it on his advice.
• She went back to work against the advice of her doctor (= her doctor advised her not to).
• The centre offers a free and confidential advice service.

Extra Examples

• Can you give me some advice on where to buy good maps?
• I think my lawyer gave me the wrong advice.
• I wished that I had followed her advice.
• I hope I can pass on some useful advice.
• Here is some advice for pregnant women.
• I will refrain from giving unsolicited advice.
• It is essential to seek expert advice from a mental health professional.
• My advice to you would be to wait a few months.
• On the advice of his experts he bought another company.
• Permission was given against the advice of the planning officers.
• That's very sound advice.
• The Local Authority runs an advice centre in the town.
• The website gives free, impartial advice on all aspects of saving energy.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French avis, based on Latin ad ‘to’ + visum, past participle of videre ‘to see’. The original sense was ‘way of looking at something, judgement’, which later became ‘an opinion given’.