advisory

American  

[ad-vahy-zuh-ree] / ædˈvaɪ zə ri /

adjective

1. of, giving, or containing advice.

   an advisory letter from a stockbroker.

2. having the power or duty to advise.

   an advisory council.

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noun

• advisories
  plural

1. a report on existing or predicted conditions, often with advice for dealing with them.

   an investment advisory.

2. an announcement or bulletin that serves to advise and usually warn the public, as of some potential hazard: a travelers' advisory.

   a health advisory;

   a travelers' advisory.

3. an announcement from the U.S. National Weather Service to keep the public informed about the progress of a potentially dangerous weather condition: tornado advisory.

   hurricane advisory;

   tornado advisory.

advisory British  

/ ədˈvaɪzərɪ /

adjective

1. giving advice; empowered to make recommendations

   an advisory body

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noun

1. a statement issued to give advice, recommendations, or a warning

   a travel advisory

2. a person or organization with an advisory function

   the Prime Minister's media advisory

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• preadvisory
  adjective
• advisorily
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• advisories
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of advisory

First recorded in 1770–80; advise + -ory ¹

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Explanation

An advisory is an announcement that often gives a warning, like a weather advisory about a blizzard. An advisory job involves giving advice. People like to give advice: friends, family, writers, and TV personalities are constantly giving tips about saving money, losing weight, and finding love. An advisory is a type of advice that is specific and usually important, like an announcement of bad weather or a terrorist threat. Advisories are often issued by the government as warnings. Also, someone whose job is to give advice has an advisory position.

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

advisory advisories

The NWS has issued a heat advisory, saying that the danger of heat-related illness remained high.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“You either had SpaceX or you didn’t,” said Greg Dowling of Fund Evaluation Group, an investment advisory firm whose clients include endowments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs were among the banking heavyweights reporting higher third-quarter profits due in part to solid trading and financial advisory revenues while describing continued US consumer health despite inflation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Two excellent articles that explore these other solutions include one from McQuarrie and another from Allan Roth, the founder of Wealth Logic, an advisory firm.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

One last advisory word: Our family’s surname is Glass.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The coastal flooding advisories farther north, in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, extend through Monday morning’s high tide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The term refers to the letters, advisories, online FAQs, interpretations and other administrative flotsam and jetsam that agencies generate to explain how they will interpret laws and rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The haze has reached as far as parts of the Philippines, where local officials have urged residents to stay indoors as much as possible, and Singapore, where authorities have begun issuing daily haze advisories.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The National Weather Service has issued high surf and coastal flood advisories until 11 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

One reason they began releasing 8lgm advisories, as they were known, was to help admins secure their own systems.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

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