"advertising" in the noun sense
1. ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert
a public promotion of some product or service
2. advertising, publicizing
the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
"advertising" in the verb sense
1. advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise
call attention to
"Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS"
2. advertise, advertize, promote, push
make publicity for try to sell (a product
"The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"
"The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"
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