Advertised Advertise Advertising I Sales People Widely Verb

• if you want to attract more customers, try advertising in the local paper.
• the cruise was advertised as the ‘journey of a lifetime’.
• i bought the camera and case as advertised in the catalogue.
• we are currently advertising for a new sales manager.

advertise

1. to tell the public about a product or a service in order to encourage people to buy or to use it
• If you want to attract more customers, try advertising in the local paper.
• The cruise was advertised as the ‘journey of a lifetime’.
• I bought the camera and case as advertised in the catalogue.
2. to let people know that something is going to happen, or that a job is available by giving details about it in a newspaper, on a notice in a public place, on the Internet, etc.
• We are currently advertising for a new sales manager.
• We advertised the concert quite widely.
3. to show or tell something about yourself to other people
• synonym publicize
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• I wouldn't advertise the fact that you don't have a work permit.
• She coughed to advertise her presence.

Extra Examples

• Mary coughed to advertise her presence.
• The company advertised for a new sales director.
• There are plans to advertise the job more widely.
• These products have been advertised very heavily.
• We are advertising for a babysitter.
• a glossy brochure advertising holidays in the Maldives
• financial advisers advertising their services in the press
• If I were you, I wouldn’t advertise the fact that you don’t have a work permit.
• We should have advertised the concert much more widely.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they advertise
• he / she / it advertises
• past simple advertised
• past participle advertised
• -ing form advertising

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French advertiss-, lengthened stem of advertir, from Latin advertere ‘turn towards’, from ad- ‘to’ + vertere ‘to turn’.The original sense was ‘turn one's attention to’, later ‘bring to someone's attention’.