advertisement
noun
a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, or on the internet.
self-advertisement
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a word derived from
advertisement.
Example Sentences
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More than half a century later, pantheonization remains, quite literally, a spectacular tool of self-advertisement for France’s head of state.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2022
Some of the posters in this exhibition were commissioned by the performers themselves, as self-advertisement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2017
That’s fascinating stuff, and a rare glimpse here at real-world, spontaneous urbanism, but the whole display remains nonetheless a self-advertisement for the architect, by other means.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2012
Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images There's a memorable passage in Tom Wolfe's hyperactive self-advertisement of 1973, The New Journalism, where he describes 60s New York as "a hulking carnival… pandemonium with a big grin on".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2012
The motor-horn may seem superfluous, but when the matter is properly explained, you will understand the necessity for some less drastic method of self-advertisement than the siren.
From The Keepers of the King's Peace by Edgar Wallace
