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advisory

English edit

Etymology edit

advise +‎ -ory

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ədˈvaɪzəɹi/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Adjective edit

advisory (comparative more advisory, superlative most advisory)

  1. Able to give advice.
    The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
  2. Containing advice; advising.
    The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.

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Noun edit

advisory (countable and uncountable, plural advisories)

  1. (countable) A warning.
    The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
  2. (uncountable, uncommon, possibly nonstandard) Supervision by an advisor.
    • 1996 March, Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “School Discipline and the Community: Local School Districts, the Judicial System, and Community Programs”, in Discipline in Michigan Public Schools and Government Enforcement of Equal Education Opportunity, page 31:
      Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.
    • 2017 December 4, Daniel Mann, “Appendix 3: Impressions from Liweta and Namatuhi”, in The smell of Ujamaa is still there[:] Tanzania's Path of Development between Grassroots Socialism and Central State Control in Ruvuma, Würzburg University Press, →ISBN, page 315:
      After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.

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