{
    "term": "ad",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or service",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The TV **ads** were first **run** last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've produced an ad for a new chocolate bar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We put an ad on a classifieds website."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A $10 million TV **ad campaign**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **ad agency**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A lot of claims are made in the ad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She took out a full-page ad in a women's magazine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "TV ads for cars"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ad appeared on all major channels."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can put your own small ads in local papers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was scanning the classified ads."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You may have seen the full-page ads that we ran in the New York Times."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news", "Business"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æd/",
                "audio": "ad/ad/ad__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/æd/",
                "audio": "ad/ad/ad__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent.: abbreviation."
}