{
    "term": "advertise",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "advertise",
            "heSheIt": "advertises"
        },
        "pastSimple": "advertised",
        "pastParticiple": "advertised",
        "ingForm": "advertising"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to tell the public about a product or a service in order to encourage people to buy or to use it",
            "sensetop": "advertise somethingadvertise something as something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If you want to attract customers you need to advertise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to advertise on TV/online/on social media"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **advertise a product/service**",
                    "contextForm": "advertise something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a glossy brochure advertising holidays in the Maldives"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How to Advertise a Business for Free on the Internet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I bought the camera and case as advertised in the catalogue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cruise was advertised as the ‘journey of a lifetime’.",
                    "contextForm": "advertise something as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These products have been advertised very heavily."
                },
                {
                    "text": "financial advisers advertising their services in the press"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you aren't advertising this service already, it's something to consider."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["heavily", "widely", "locally"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to let people know that something is going to happen, or that a job is available by giving details about it in a newspaper, on a notice in a public place, on the internet, etc.",
            "sensetop": "advertise for somebody/somethingadvertise something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sellers pay upfront to advertise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are currently advertising for a new sales manager.",
                    "contextForm": "advertise for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The best jobs are not always advertised in newspapers.",
                    "contextForm": "advertise something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Vacancies are usually advertised on our website."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We advertised the concert quite widely."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are advertising for a babysitter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are plans to advertise the job nationally."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["heavily", "widely", "locally"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to show or tell something about yourself to other people",
            "sensetop": "advertise something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't advertise the fact that you don't have a work permit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She coughed to advertise her presence."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "publicize"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvətaɪz/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertise__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvətaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertises__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvətaɪzd/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertised__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvətaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertising__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvərtaɪz/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertise__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvərtaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertises__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvərtaɪzd/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertised__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈædvərtaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ad/advertise/advertising__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French advertiss-, lengthened stem of advertir, from Latin advertere ‘turn towards’, from ad- ‘to’ + vertere ‘to turn’.The original sense was ‘turn one's attention to’, later ‘bring to someone's attention’."
}