Madison Avenue

noun

1. a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.

Madison Avenue

noun

1. a street in New York City: a centre of American advertising and public-relations firms and a symbol of their attitudes and methods

Madison Avenue

1. A street in Manhattan on which many advertising and public relations firms have offices.

“Madison Avenue hype” carries the connotation of misrepresentation or deliberate dishonesty.

The name of the street is often used to refer to the high-pressure techniques of the advertising business.

Example Sentences

Sotheby’s has coped by making dramatic moves, including cutting a deal with an Abu Dhabi wealth fund for a nearly $1 billion infusion and moving its New York flagship from a nondescript building near Manhattan’s East River to the Breuer on a chic Madison Avenue block near boutiques, galleries and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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“It is just fascinating. And to denude it, to sanitize it, to make it kind of a Madison Avenue thing — already our revolution, because it’s there are no photographs, there’s no newsreel, has been sort of sentimentalized. It’s easier to do that. If it’s just a painting, it can’t be that violent.”

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The people rising out of the hole in the ground on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and Forty-seventh Street at 6:40 in the morning revealed a great deal about themselves, if you knew what to look for.

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One reason why, on September 18, 2008, there weren’t nearly as many people on the northeast corner of Forty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue at 6:40 in the morning as there had been on September 18, 2007.

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In May, his firm agreed to pay $1.1 billion for an officer tower on Madison Avenue.

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