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advertising

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English advertise
English -ing
English advertising

    From advertise + -ing.

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    Noun

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    advertising (usually uncountable, plural advertisings)

    1. Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
      • 1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book:
        Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
      • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 117:
        [...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground.
      • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
        But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
      • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
        This, in many ways, was the crux of the Generation X conundrum—how (for example) was it possible for a person to reject the illusion of advertising if their only concept of authenticity had been constructed by advertising?
    2. The industry or profession made up of such communications.

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    Verb

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    advertising

    1. present participle and gerund of advertise

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English advertising.

    Noun

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    advertising n (uncountable)

    1. advertising

    Declension

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    singular only indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative advertising advertisingul
    genitive-dative advertising advertisingului
    vocative advertisingule
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