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Definition of Advertisements
1. advertisement [n] - See also: advertisement
Medical Definition of Advertisements
1. Public notices, usually as paid announcements and usually printed in newspapers and magazines or posted on billboards. It includes motion picture or television advertising. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advertisements
Literary usage of Advertisements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"They showed cigarette advertisements, interspersed among advertisements for other
products, to groups of male and female schoolchildren (aged 6 through 16 ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Owners of property may post advertisements on their own property but only ...
The Hesse-Darmstadt Act of 1902 prohibits the placing of any advertisements, ..."
3. Journal of Applied Psychology by American Psychological Association, American Association for Applied Psychology (1918)
"irrelevancy in the illustrations, since nearly ten times as many advertisements
with relevant illustrations are recalled as those containing irrelevant ..."
4. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"the extent of injury that has been trade and industry by the restrictions, ition,
on advertisements in Newspapers ; it not for other modes of advertising, ..."
5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"3 In Germany a police ordinance against covering roofs with advertisements was
sustained on the ground that such advertisements, by causing people to stop, ..."