Definition of "advertise" []

• To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales. See Synonyms at announce. (verb-transitive)
• To make known; call attention to: advertised my intention to resign. (verb-transitive)
• To warn or notify: "This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death” ( Henry David Thoreau). (verb-transitive)
• To call the attention of the public to a product or business. (verb-intransitive)
• To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper: advertise for an apartment. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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