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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a law/accounting/advertising etc firm
▪ She was offered a job with a law firm.
a media/marketing/advertising etc blitz
▪ The campaign was launched with a nationwide publicity blitz.
advertise a vacancy
▪ Where did you see the vacancy advertised?
advertising agency
ambient advertising
an advertising ban
▪ Is an advertising ban a denial of freedom of speech?
an advertising slogan
▪ The company has dropped its original advertising slogan.
an advertising/employment/travel etc agency
▪ a local housing agency
an advertising/marketing/sales campaign
▪ The store ran a television advertising campaign just before Christmas.
cigarette advertising
▪ All cigarette advertising has been banned.
cinema advertising
▪ a cinema advertising campaign for Levi jeans
subliminal advertising (=with hidden messages and pictures in it)
▪ subliminal advertising
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agency
▪ Why are they driven to buy up other advertising agencies?
▪ The racket is being run by shadowy agencies who advertise their services in magazines.
ban
▪ A ban on cigarette advertising on billboards, on public transportation, and at sports venues.
business
▪ One alleges breach of contract, unfair business practices and false advertising, among other things.
▪ Sadly, most of the businesses advertised are not good propositions.
▪ Change stationary, business cards and advertising to show new codes.
▪ You get something you want; in return, various businesses get to advertise their products to you.
campaign
▪ The campaign kicks off with advertising on Tesco Clubcard recipe cards and in health food trade titles.
cigarette
▪ Drug Administration has pledged to issue regulations curtailing certain types of cigarette advertising and distribution.
▪ A ban on cigarette advertising on billboards, on public transportation, and at sports venues.
company
▪ Some companies advertise kit, knowing that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad.
▪ More than 100 companies sell restroom advertising space, and many mainstream advertisers are selling their goods where graffiti once prevailed.
▪ About the profits that drug companies make from this advertising.
▪ These companies advertise their wares in magazines like Popular Electronics and Electronics now.
▪ For decades, pharmaceutical companies advertised only in medical journals.
▪ In some countries the company advertised and promoted smuggled cigarettes to improve its market share.
▪ In one instance, a company advertised computer memory chips that it then never delivered to those who sent money.
dollar
▪ Morris' description of how he spent unprecedented millions of dollars on polls and advertising is both stunning and disturbing.
▪ Television is getting 90 percent of the advertising dollar.
▪ A happy customer or client is worth a thousand dollars of printed advertising.
fact
▪ This may be only too true, but if so, why advertise the fact?
▪ To advertise the fact, they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower.
▪ The recruiting office should advertise the fact that it welcomes members of the public who wish to drop in.
firm
▪ Bogus jobs line threat DIAL-A-JOB firms advertising bogus vacancies could soon be outlawed.
▪ It is illegal for a firm to advertise 0 per cent finance or a discount for cash.
▪ These firms advertise in do-it-yourself magazines and Exchange and Mart.
job
▪ Make a note of any recruitment agencies that seem to be advertising regularly in job or geographical areas that interest you.
▪ Even during times of strong economic growth there will always be many more applicants than advertised jobs.
▪ Yesterday the Department for Education and Employment made it clear that there would be no hurry to advertise the Ofsted job.
▪ Modern advertising deals and guaranteed jobs at the local sports centre do not seem so grand, but they count as much.
magazine
▪ Take the new, improved version of the Cross of Lourdes being advertised in Prediction magazine.
▪ These companies advertise their wares in magazines like Popular Electronics and Electronics now.
▪ Most reputable suppliers advertise in Birds magazine.
▪ Naturalists recruited boys to hunt specimens, established price lists, advertised in popular magazines.
▪ These firms advertise in do-it-yourself magazines and Exchange and Mart.
▪ She joined Conde Nast in 1959, working in the advertising department of Glamour magazine.
▪ I even advertised in the art magazines.
▪ The racket is being run by shadowy agencies who advertise their services in magazines.
media
▪ More than $ 1 million a week is being spent on advertising in strategically selected media markets.
▪ For example, you could break national advertising down into media buying, production, and creative development.
million
▪ Steve Forbes tried to win the state with a $ 4 million advertising splurge.
▪ The president also would require tobacco companies to pay for a $ 150 million advertising crusade to stop young people from smoking.
▪ He spent $ 4 million just on advertising in the state.
▪ In 1995, it poured 30 million pounds into advertising and marketing offers, including free calls.
▪ Gamble does not gamble $ 950 million on broadcast advertising to be controversial.
money
▪ Why can not money be spent on advertising the help available in places where the homeless gather?
▪ The healthy economy continues to give companies both money and incentive to advertise.
▪ The rules on how any government spends money on advertising are strictly controlled.
▪ Owners' Network hopes to make money by selling advertising space on the Web pages.
▪ One way is to give away products or sell them for below cost and make money through advertising.
▪ Buchanan has been spending big money on prime-time television advertising in the New Orleans market.
▪ Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television, and more like 70% in big agencies.
▪ Newspapers make most of their money from selling advertising, not selling the papers themselves.
newspaper
▪ He adds that there also is a push to crack down on magazines and newspapers that advertise the devices.
▪ However, newspaper advertising can be of great value to the shopper for food.
▪ News releases, brochures, newspaper advertising, direct mail and public service announcements are also in the works.
poster
▪ All over Ireland, posters advertise pilgrim coach tours to Knock, a town famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
▪ A poster on one wall advertises a Soldiers of Fortune shooting match.
▪ Inside appeared a dark labyrinth of ravaged shelves behind plate glass still festooned with the posters advertising special Christmas bargains.
▪ There was a framed poster above it, advertising a livestock sale of the 1860s.
▪ Maybe it's the Audi posters advertising sponsorship of the meeting, or the lines of policemen protecting Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets.
▪ I also have a few big posters advertising the event.
▪ Above A poster advertises this most romantic of all trains.
▪ A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
product
▪ He loves to see the company's products being advertised, being stocked in the shops.
▪ And the product being advertised is, of course, the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
promotion
▪ By far the most important medium, in terms of total expenditure on advertising and sales promotion, is the press.
▪ In a fight with other video chains for market share, Blockbuster spent heavily on advertising and promotion.
▪ With a communication program that could be national advertising, sales promotion, trade shows, and press activities.
▪ Convenience stores engage in relatively little advertising and in few promotions, though they do feature some specials from time to time.
▪ They can be classified into two types: in-store strategies and advertising and promotions.
restriction
▪ Advocates of control theory press for increased prices, fewer outlets for drink and restrictions or bans on advertising.
▪ Increasingly, campaigners are demanding that countries impose restrictions on advertising aimed at children.
sale
▪ Between then and 1872 Millend was advertised for sale by auction on several occasions.
▪ Tiny, energetic, imaginative, she drove advertising sales to ever-new heights and kept the business departments running smoothly.
▪ During the 1840s, Clutterbuck's enlarged and modernised mill was advertised for sale or lease.
▪ StreetSideInvestor.com is funded through advertising sales and six major investors.
▪ Imagine that a newly formed trust advertises units for sale to savers.
▪ With a communication program that could be national advertising, sales promotion, trade shows, and press activities.
▪ There was a framed poster above it, advertising a livestock sale of the 1860s.
▪ Many studies have attempted to estimate the effect of advertising on sales, but few have established any relationship at all.
service
▪ They heard how Benstead of Meare, Somerset, spent thousands on brochures advertising the Poole-Bilbao service.
▪ Corporate funded artworks are often advertised as public service.
▪ Cyber Promotions is in the business of sending bulk e-mail messages advertising various products and services.
▪ The racket is being run by shadowy agencies who advertise their services in magazines.
▪ He sent Prophet Samuel a five-hundred-dollar donation and a brochure advertising his banking services.
▪ Secondly, solicitors are now permitted to advertise their services.
television
▪ Pundits expect the really big money for 3-D displays to be in video-games and television advertising.
▪ It is no secret that the manufacturers of processed food products use television abundantly for advertising.
▪ As the dot.coms crashed, dragging stockmarkets with them, so, eventually, did television advertising.
▪ Buchanan has been spending big money on prime-time television advertising in the New Orleans market.
▪ It did, however, spend huge sums in television advertising and also embarked on a massive poster campaign.
▪ However, in some states it went into a fund that also paid for some television advertising covering political themes.
tobacco
▪ The £100m spent by the tobacco industry on advertising is not three times the budget of the Health Promotion Agency.
▪ And the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that it has the right to limiting tobacco advertising.
■ VERB
market
▪ There has been a shift towards the power of marketing and advertising of the brand, the product's known image.
▪ Words like these are borrowed, l believe, from business terminology, from marketing and advertising firms.
▪ A normal chocolate brand would spend £6 million on marketing and buying advertising space.
▪ The company tries to provide unbiased information rather than marketing pieces that advertise various companies.
▪ How to build a business plan, the choices in sales and marketing and advertising are covered.
pay
▪ It pays to advertise and many cleaner species employ dazzling stripes or have characteristic bobbing movements to draw attention to themselves.
▪ However, in some states it went into a fund that also paid for some television advertising covering political themes.
▪ I receive no Arts Council funding or similar, don't receive paid advertising and rely on competition entry fees and subscriptions.
▪ Nevertheless, taken on balance, if you possess unpleasant chemical properties, it pays to advertise.
sell
▪ This branding element can be a useful source of revenue, as this space can be sold to advertise local businesses.
▪ More than 100 companies sell restroom advertising space, and many mainstream advertisers are selling their goods where graffiti once prevailed.
▪ Emap Diffusion to grow our copy sales; and Emap Media, selling advertising across markets and across media.
▪ Owners' Network hopes to make money by selling advertising space on the Web pages.
▪ I phoned seven companies at the end of September and not one of them was selling at the price advertised.
▪ Miller said stores typically are offered free register tape by private vendors who sell advertising space on the back of the tape.
▪ Newspapers make most of their money from selling advertising, not selling the papers themselves.
spend
▪ The £100m refers to spending on advertising throughout the United Kingdom.
▪ In a fight with other video chains for market share, Blockbuster spent heavily on advertising and promotion.
▪ We want to talk to some one about the vast amounts of money that are spent on advertising.
▪ It has a war chest of $ 40 million to spend each year on advertising.
▪ Discount electrical retailers are expected to spend about IR£5m on advertising this year.
▪ This leads to increased spending on advertising.
▪ Why can not money be spent on advertising the help available in places where the homeless gather?
▪ There are claims that $ 300 million was spent on Internet advertising in 1996.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in medical/advertising etc parlance
▪ What is a prognosis in medical parlance?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "How did you find out about the new software?" "It was advertised on TV."
▪ Billboards all over town were advertising the upcoming state fair.
▪ The concert was advertised in all the national newspapers.
▪ There was a big poster advertising a well-known brand of cola.
▪ These companies advertise their products in magazines like Popular Electronics.
▪ We are a small business so we can only afford to advertise in the local press.
▪ Young smokers tend to buy the brands that are most heavily advertised.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few neon signs are beginning to appear on the larger buildings advertising the usual Western wares such as Levi jeans.
▪ It pays to advertise and many cleaner species employ dazzling stripes or have characteristic bobbing movements to draw attention to themselves.