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noun

classified ads collectively.

the business or practice of selling space for classified ads.

the department of a newspaper or other publication that handles classified advertising.

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Origin of classified advertising

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.
Corporations Are No Longer Silent on LGBT Issues||December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Schiff told The Daily Beast that he was given a classified briefing about the Sony attack from the intelligence community Friday.
Obama Could Hit China to Punish North Korea|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His advertising tells a story, but so do the objects themselves.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really.|Ana Marie Cox|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This material has been reviewed by the CIA to prevent the disclosure of classified information.
CIA Agents Assess: How Real Is ‘Homeland’?|Chuck Cogan, John MacGaffin|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!
The Scared Widdle Kitty of ISIS|Jacob Siegel|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For accuracy, 500 to 1000 leukocytes must be classified; for approximate results, 200 are sufficient.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Classify each leukocyte seen, and calculate what percentage each variety is of the whole number classified.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
These may be again classified under many different heads, as there are many kinds and grades of each.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The latter had already prepared a cabinet of pigeon-holes, arranged and classified by the names of Balzacian characters.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
Ede was the type after which some department store advertising-department diplomat had coined the term "stylish stout."
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various