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classified advertisement

n. Any of a list of newspaper or website advertisements included with others under a heading describing the category of product or service offered.

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classified advertisement

n. a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type [syn: classified ad]

Usage examples of "classified advertisement".

And, reaching into a drawer of his desk he drew out a pink receipt for a classified advertisement.

He had purchased the Buick, used, three days before, from a classified advertisement in the Washington Post.

I want you to take out a classified advertisement to the effect that the advertiser has inherited a trophy collection that he doesn't want, and is dispersing it to the highest bidder.

They had been taken from classified advertisement columns and pasted into the book, a couple of dozen or so to each page.

Though it was in an unfamiliar language, by observing its unpunctuated abbreviations and compacted syntax I was able to deduce that it had been torn from the classified advertisement section of a newspaper.

A newspaper classified advertisement led him to a rental room in a private suburban home.

A death notice is a classified advertisement written and paid for by the family of the deceased, and sent to newspapers by the funeral home as part of its full-service package.

Consider a classified advertisement that appeared in the San Gabriel (Calif.