advisory
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ədˈvaɪzəɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]advisory (comparative more advisory, superlative most advisory)
- Able to give advice.
- The advisory committee could only offer advice, but since that was almost always accepted they had real power.
- Containing advice; advising.
- The consultant's advisory recommendations were selectively adopted.
Derived terms
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[edit]able to give advice
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containing advice
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Noun
[edit]advisory (countable and uncountable, plural advisories)
- (countable) A warning.
- The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
- (meteorology) Official information issued by the National Weather Service that highlights special weather conditions that are less serious than a warning. They are for events that may cause significant inconvenience, and if caution is not exercised, it could lead to situations that may threaten life and/or property.
- (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.
Hyponyms
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[edit]a warning — see also warning
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