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Definition of advisory
From the M-W Editors
Examples of advisory in a Sentence
He attended a meeting of the advisory committee.
She is acting in an advisory role in the administration.
Recent Examples of advisory from the Web
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Cavale sees this curriculum including people like Tiki Barber, the former NFL player who sits on the company's advisory board.
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Peter Meyer When the first round of non-renewals became public last month, an EPA spokesman noted that reappointments were not guaranteed and that the agency wanted to ensure fair consideration of all nominees for advisory board posts.
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The language did not go over particularly well with Council President Gina Gregory, but did prompt a discussion about shortcomings in the advisory council's operations.
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Merkle said replay has received support from the Minnesota Football Coaches Association and an advisory board of athletics directors.
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Neil Brown is a financial consultant at Burkett Financial Services in Columbia, S.C. Voices is an occasional feature of edited excerpts in which wealth managers address issues of interest to the advisory community.
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Only about 40 schools offered it as a for-credit class in 2016, according to the state superintendent’s office, and most of those are advisory periods that meet for a short time at the beginning of the day.
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More than half the positions on the City of San Diego’s 41 advisory boards are either vacant or filled by members serving on expired terms, limiting the public participation in government decisions, according to a new audit.
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Musk joined the president’s advisory councils a month after the election last year, along with a band of high-profile tech executives.
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First Known Use of advisory
1731
advisory
Definition of advisory
advisories
: a report giving information (as on the weather) and often recommending action to be taken
Examples of advisory in a Sentence
We heard a weather advisory saying that heavy rains are expected tonight.
Recent Examples of advisory from the Web
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On what may be the hottest weekend yet this year, the National Weather Service in Seattle issued a heat advisory from noon Saturday to 9 p.m. Sunday.
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A high surf advisory remains in effect through 10 a.m. CT on Friday; the high risk of rip currents remains through early Friday evening, NWS said.
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With top winds of 50 miles (80 kilometers) an hour, the system is moving northwest toward the coast and was about 105 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a 11 p.m. New York time advisory.
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Dr. Charles Nemeroff, chair of psychiatry at the University of Miami and the person pegged by the APA to lead the group that wrote the JAMA Psychiatry advisory, is also a skeptic.
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San Diego County’s valleys and foothills areas will be under a heat advisory from 11 a.m. on Monday to 9 p.m. on Wednesday as a massive high pressure system settles over the southwestern United States.
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If the E. coli bacteria levels climb above 250 colonies per milliliter of water, IDEM requires the local beach managers to notify the public by posting a water advisory or close the beach for swimming.
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Despite the chilly weather, Chicago's beaches opened Friday, with most beaches open but with a swim advisory at Calumet Beach due to weather.
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Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter previously worked for SBD Advisors, and the its current advisory board includes retired Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Barack Obama.
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First Known Use of advisory
1920
ADVISORY Defined for English Language Learners
advisory
playDefinition of advisory for English Language Learners
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: having the power or right to make suggestions about what should be done : able to give advice
advisory
Definition of advisory for English Language Learners
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: a report that gives information or a warning about something
ADVISORY Defined for Kids
advisory
playDefinition of advisory for Students
: having the power or right to advise an advisory committee
Law Dictionary
advisory
playLegal Definition of advisory
1 : having or exercising power to advise an advisory committee
2 : containing or giving advice an advisory verdict
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