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Definition

advertise / 'ædvǝtaÇz / v ၁။ ေၾကာ္ျငာသည္။ advertise on TV/ in a newspaper ❍ advertise soap powder / one's house / one's services. ၂။ (က) ေၾကာ္ျငာသည္။ အသိေပးသည္။ လူသိရွင္ၾကားလုပ္သည္။ advertise a meeting / a concert ❍ The post has been advertised. ❍ ( fml) It may be safer not to advertise your presence (ie tell people that you are present). (ခ) ~ for sb/sth ေၾကာ္ျငာ (ေခၚယူ) သည္။ I must advertise for a new secretary. ❏ advertisement / ǝd'vɜ:tÇsmǝnt; US ædvǝr'taÇzmǝnt / n ၁။ [C ] (also infml advert, ad ) ~ ( for sb/sth ) (က) ေၾကာ္ျငာ။ a TV advert ❍ a job ad ❍ If you want to sell your old sofa, why not put/place an advertisement in the local paper? (ခ) ျပ႐ုပ္။ ( fig ) Torn menus and dirty tablecloths are a poor advertisement for (ie do not attract people to) a restaurant. ၂။ [U] ေၾကာ္ျငာျခင္း။ ❏ advertiser n ေၾကာ္ျငာသူ။ ❏ advertising n ၁။ ေၾကာ္ျငာ[ျခင္း]။ national advertising campaign ❍ Cigarette advertising has been banned. ၂။ ေၾကာ္ျငာလုပ္ငန္း။ He works in advertising. ❍ an advertising agency.

Examples

1. Political parties are not allowed to advertise on TV.
2. The perfume has been advertised in all the major women’s magazines.
3. This job was advertised in the local paper.
4. [advertise for] : We need to advertise for a new chef.
5. It’s best not to advertise your own shortcomings.