{
    "term": "advertisement",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a notice, picture or film telling people about a product, job or service",
            "sensetop": "advertisement for something",
            "labels": "informalalso British English, informal(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a newspaper/television advertisement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an online advertisement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can place an advertisement on a classifieds website."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Television and radio refused to carry advertisements for the album.",
                    "contextForm": "advertisement for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We placed advertisements in a number of national newspapers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She ran a full-page advertisement on the back page of the newspaper."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news", "Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["good", "discreet", "misleading"],
                "verb + advertisement": ["place", "put", "take out"],
                "adverb": ["appear", "say something", "show something"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the advertisement", "advertisement for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an example of something that shows its good qualities",
            "sensetop": "advertisement for something",
            "labels": "British English also",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Dirty streets and homelessness are no advertisement for a prosperous society."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a walking advertisement for healthy living."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the act of advertising something and making it public",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are employing an assistant to help with the advertisement of the group’s activities."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/",
                "audio": "ad/advertisement/advertisement__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌædvərˈtaɪzmənt/",
                "audio": "ad/advertisement/advertisement__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (denoting a statement calling attention to something): from Old French advertissement, from the verb 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’."
}