advertising
The advert said 'We are an equal opportunities employer'.招聘广告写着“我们的用人原则：人人机会均等”。
I put an advert in the paper to sell my bike but I haven't had any takers.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advertising and marketing
ad
ad agency
adman
adverse publicity
advertise
customer relationship management
demographics
detoxify
differentiator
dogfooding
o.n.o.
on-brand
opinion mining
overexpose
overexposure
trade dress
unadvertised
unbilled
unbranded
unmarketable

advert | Business English

advert
noun[ C ]
 COMMERCE, MARKETING UKuk /ˈædvɜːt/us(alsocommercial)
an advertisement:
Their latest advert features world-famous tennis player, Roger Federer.
appear in an advertBig companies often pay celebrities to appear in their adverts.
see/read/answer an advertYou often see adverts for various unit trusts and funds in newspapers.
advert for sthAll adverts for alcohol are carefully regulated.
job adverts
The campaign kicked off with a full-page advert in 'The Wall Street Journal'.
a television/newspaper/radio advert

Examples of advert

advert
Two of the video sequences in this act portray this perfection by processing television adverts which feature female and male models.
Although it is unclear as to precisely what is meant by salience, accounts often advert to notions such as frequency or familiarity.
Our use of the greater-good move, by contrast, adverts to a good which essentially depends upon precisely the presence of epistemic distance.
Such adverts were a defensive action to protect or restore the man's own credit.
For example, the young people in this study talked about music in relation to films, adverts, computer games, music videos and music television programmes.
The power of television, adverts, bill-boards, and magazines all present us with images that live on within us.
This textbook is more than an aid to learning, it is an advert for its subject, and should interest and appeal to a wide readership.
Recruitment to date has occurred predominately as a result of direct contact with potential participants responding directly to adverts or leaflets.
The doorbell and phone are complemented by very frequent breaks for adverts.
Although he is interested chiefly in the latter, he frequently adverts to it in terms more suitable for the former.
The advert, it seems, had aimed to expose an informer (likely the same man) whose previous efforts to infiltrate communist circles had aroused suspicion.
The walks were also promoted by the council's countryside service, and regular adverts were placed in local newspapers and posters displayed at community amenities.
It's not enough just to advert to ' other ' reasons merely as conjecture.
A semantic account, however, adverts principally to the properties of the category referred to by a term, and any ramifications these have for the corresponding concept.
Or we might take what the defendants said seriously, either as reasons adverted to before the fact or reasons they used during the course of their research and practices.
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