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How to pronounce advert in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms allude, touch
Type of hint, suggest
Verb group concern, refer, come to, relate, pertain, bear on, touch on, have to do with, touch
Type Words
Synonyms attend, give ear, hang, pay heed
Type of listen
Has types fixate
Derivation advertence, advertency, advertent
Type Words
Synonyms bring up, cite, mention, name, refer
Type of mean, have in mind, think of
Has types namedrop, appeal, quote, raise, invoke, dredge up, drag up, remember, speak of the devil, cross-refer, cite, commend, touch on, bring up
Type Words
Synonyms ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing
Type of publicity, packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material
Has types commercial, commercial message, direct mail, flier, flyer, handbill, mailer, newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement, preview, prevue, teaser, throwaway, top billing, trailer, advertorial, bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular

Examples of advert

advert
Google is to use its first primetime UK TV advert to promote its Chrome browser.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I left a simple advert, describing myself as a broody, 31-year-old professional.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Almost 1600 people viewed the online advert in the first two weeks, Dennis said.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Great stuff for the neutrals and a fine advert for the Premier League, for sure.
From the expressandstar.com
Legitimate companies will never send an information request via a pop-up advert.
From the guardian.co.uk
More importantly, though, CBS just aired a Christmas advert for Garmin sat-navs.
From the guardian.co.uk
Don't just regurgitate the content of the advert or the text from their website.
From the newscientist.com
If you did it by value then you'd have to consider cover price and advert sales.
From the guardian.co.uk
A Pine-o-Clean advert flashes onto the screen that has scarcely worked all night.
From the smh.com.au
More examples
  • Ad: a public promotion of some product or service
  • Attend: give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"
  • Allude: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
  • Mention: make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"
  • Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, ideals, or services. ...
  • (The Adverts) The Adverts were an English punk band who formed in 1976 and broke up in late 1979. They were one of the first bands to concomitantly play punk rock and enjoy commercial success, and their line-up included Gaye Advert, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first ...
  • An advertisement, an ad; To turn attention; To call attention, refer; construed with to
  • (adverts) Advertisements bound into a book, usually at the end of the back matter. Click here to see an example following the title page in a late 18th-century edition (University of Pittsburgh Libraries). Abbreviated ads or advrts.
  • Used here in the archaic connotation: to turn one's attention toward, to take heed of, to observe.