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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brochure
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a holiday brochure (=a magazine that shows what holidays you can take)
▪ We were looking through holiday brochures thinking about the summer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
▪ For your free colour brochure please telephone or send the coupon, today.
▪ Return the coupon today for a free full colour brochure and details of your nearest Atco Appointed Dealer.
▪ Family park with excellent facilities. Free colour brochure.
▪ For free brochure write or telephone giving age of eldest person to be included.
▪ Write or phone for free illustrated brochure and expert advice.
▪ Call today for a free brochure.
▪ Ask for our free colour brochure for lots of interesting bathroom ideas.
glossy
▪ I had read the literature, listened to the tape and examined the glossy brochure.
▪ They have facts, figures, glossy brochures, glossy lawyers and beatific smiles.
▪ Chapanis suggested that computers are not quite as easy to work as the glossy brochures suggest.
▪ Some 40 million glossy brochures pack agents' racks advertising holidays each year.
▪ The following evening Merrill was meticulously checking the proofs of a glossy brochure advertising the company's line in executive office furniture.
▪ The 16-page glossy brochure based on commercial women's weeklies contained articles on Labour's policy to help working and stay-at-home mums.
new
▪ A NEW brochure aimed at boosting Darlington's tourist trade was launched in Birmingham this week.
▪ In his comments about the new brochure, he mentioned something about the greens and the blues.
▪ If you have not seen our new brochure and are interested, we have some copies available.
▪ When he produced a new brochure he proudly placed portraits of his wife and himself side by side with his dancing sylphs.
■ NOUN
colour
▪ Everyone who writes will receive a colour brochure or call the credit card hotline on.
▪ Further details and colour brochure from Robert and Barbara Hackett.
▪ To find out obtain our comprehensive full colour brochure.
▪ For your free colour brochure please telephone or send the coupon, today.
▪ Return the coupon today for a free full colour brochure and details of your nearest Atco Appointed Dealer.
▪ Please ask for our colour brochure.
holiday
▪ Check with your travel agent or in your holiday brochure about the voltage of the country you're visiting.
▪ He regains his seat behind the mahogany counter, a holiday brochure in hand.
▪ So where will the holiday brochures of the future recommend?
▪ The tables were taken from newspapers, holiday brochures and advertisements.
travel
▪ But even then Ethel had pored over travel brochures and dreamed of ships, cruises, and faraway places.
■ VERB
feature
▪ Many of the guesthouses and hotels we feature in this brochure, have been in the same family for years.
produce
▪ I wish to produce the brochure in time for its issue to have maximum circulation and impact to ensure a successful centenary.
▪ Many areas are producing books, brochures and maps to provide a guide to this history.
▪ It's also flexible; anyone who wants to produce a newsletter, brochure or advertisement will find it meets their needs.
▪ When he produced a new brochure he proudly placed portraits of his wife and himself side by side with his dancing sylphs.
▪ He said producing the brochures for each authority had not been expensive.
publish
▪ Large numbers of locally published guide-books and brochures relating to individual shrines have proved to be mines of useful information.
read
▪ Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious!
send
▪ If you would also like to play better golf then send for his brochure.
▪ Estrada said he would rather spend his money sending campaign brochures through the mail and handing them out door to door.
▪ There were numerous hotels of this kind, she must make enquiries, send for brochures.
▪ Keep in touch ... send brochure first.
▪ Prices start at £55. Send for Full Colour brochure and Booking for to.
▪ I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent, together with a bouquet of roses and a letter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glossy magazine/brochure etc
▪ A glossy magazine designed to satisfy the CEOs ego may go wide of the mark with the factory workers.
▪ Chapanis suggested that computers are not quite as easy to work as the glossy brochures suggest.
▪ I had read the literature, listened to the tape and examined the glossy brochure.
▪ I have simply refined the role of glossy magazines.
▪ It can be seen smiling from the cover of glossy magazines that celebrate celebrity as much as sport.
▪ They strike beautiful poses that could go unaltered into glossy magazines but tell us little about them.
▪ Yes, the glossy magazines should avoid using images of clearly under-nourished models or promoting the heroin-chic look.
▪ You may obtain snapshots using scissors and your favorite glossy magazine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a travel brochure
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A handout or employee brochure with the basic facts can be distributed.
▪ Additional brochures can be obtained from the competition address. 8.
▪ An airborne, tremulous brochure Proclaiming that the end is near.
▪ But even then Ethel had pored over travel brochures and dreamed of ships, cruises, and faraway places.
▪ In this brochure we highlight many of the Midland money transmission services.
▪ Readers can pick up a brochure for that.
▪ Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday, relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure.
▪ This brochure empowers sufferers with knowledge to make informed decisions about their headache care.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brochure

Brochure \Bro*chure"\, n. [F., fr. brocher to stitch. See Broach, v. t.] A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet; a single sheet folded to make four pages.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brochure

1748, "pamphlet; short written work stitched together," from French brochure "a stitched work," from brocher "to stitch" (sheets together), from Old French brochier "to prick, jab, pierce," from broche "pointed tool, awl" (see broach (n.)).

Wiktionary
brochure

n. A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

WordNet
brochure

n. a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet, folder, leaflet, pamphlet]

Wikipedia
Brochure

A brochure is an informative paper document (often also used for advertising), that can be folded into a template, pamphlet or leaflet. Brochures are advertising pieces mainly used to introduce a company or organization and inform about products or services to a target audience.

Brochures are distributed by radio, handed out personally or placed in brochure racks. They may be considered as grey literature. They are usually present near tourist attractions.

Usage examples of "brochure".

The best answer is that a brochure creates the drama of an advertisement but delivers a more complete sales message that can be retained physically as wen as mentally.

You must approach this in the same way you would initiate the development of a brochure, a catalog, an advertisement or direct mail solicitation.

We offered premiums to this highly targeted list of advertisers for correctly counting the number of times Your Place appeared in the brochure we mailed out.

It was the kind of vigorous workout described in brochures for expensive isokinetic machines.

Miss Perine pulled a pink folder from her desk drawer and handed him a slick brochure with pictures so he could see what the school looked like.

Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.

During the next few days I obtained railway time-tables which listed cross-Channel ferries and train connections on the Continent, and spent quite a lot of time between my other duties in studying these together with brochures from shipping companies, trying to work out how best to travel from Bournemouth to Athens.

He had been a fisherman long years before when he saw one of Hammers recruiting brochures.

This next stage of the brochure design will include an accurate size, typestyle, artwork or photography.

Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.

It resembled the model agency brochures she had borrowed from Lindsay, and many of the women pictured here might almost have made it as models.

Taking her at her word, Cole gathered up all his information and they poured over sprinkler brochures, finally settling on a good yet affordable system.

It was ordered especially for handling reports, brochures and pamphlets.

The vast bank of brochures against one wall seemed more appropriate for a tourist resort than a government office, and the brochures themselves were likewise colorful and sunny, promising services in perky catchphrases that were meant to make the alien seem reasonable.

I wrote to every one of the kennels in Dorset, and they all sent me their fancy brochures with color pictures of where they kept their animals, and actual menus of what they fed them, and how the runs and cages were heated, and what days the vet would come for checkups, and what days they did worming and grooming and all.