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advertising
What does advertising mean?
advertising (noun): the business of drawing public attention to goods and services.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce advertising?
/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does advertising come from?
From advertise + -ing.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to advertising
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “advertising” mean?
the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
Right! That's what “advertising” means.
something that is representative of all such things in a group
Not quite: that's what example means.
the front opening of a creature through which food is ingested
Not quite: that's what mouth means.
an advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace
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