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Examples of advisory in a Sentence
He attended a meeting of the advisory committee.
She is acting in an advisory role in the administration.
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According to the Sustainable Investments Institute, an advisory firm for social, environmental and policy issues, during the past eight years appeals heard by the SEC have been granted 40-60% of the time.
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The two largest proxy advisory firms are recommending the auditor be fired in light of GE’s accounting issues.
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Neil Shen, founding and managing partner of investment firm Sequoia China, is also a member of the advisory board for the Yale School of Management.
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The vast majority of the group’s funding comes from pharmaceutical companies, some of whose executives sit on its advisory board.
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The president recently appointed her to the Federal Salary Council, an advisory board that suggests changes to the government's pay scales.
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The concept started at UW-Whitewater, where Engel is on the advisory board for the school's communications department.
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Across the street, hundreds more lined up for a housewarming at the university’s Institute of Politics, where conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens of the advisory board.
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Her wife Christine Marinoni joined the administration in 2014, and after de Blasio's re-election, Nixon was named to the advisory board for the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.
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Origin and Etymology of advisory
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: 1731
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of advisory
plural 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.
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The National Weather Service expects most of the snow to fall in Central Indiana before 2 p.m. A winter weather advisory will remain in place in Hancock, Johnson and Shelby counties until then.
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The weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for maybe 1 to 3 inches of muck.
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The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for much of the Massachusetts coast, a winter storm warning for most of New England and a winter weather advisory for portions of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Travel conditions are expected to be difficult Tuesday morning, as nearly 44 million people are under winter weather advisory or warning.
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The rest of New England was under a winter storm warning, and a winter weather advisory blanketed most of New York and portions of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina.
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NWS Boise issued a winter storm warning stretching from the McCall area across Weiser and into Eastern Oregon, as well as a winter weather advisory for Boise County and the Boise mountains northeast of the Treasure Valley.
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Up to 7 inches of snow could fall in the Anchorage area Thursday, with the highest amounts along the Hillside, according to a winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service.
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The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory late Sunday evening through Monday morning as freezing cold temps made for tough driving conditions.
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Origin and Etymology of advisory
ADVISORY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition 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
Definition of advisory for Students
: having the power or right to advise
- an advisory committee
Law Dictionary
legal Definition of advisory
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: having or exercising power to advise
- an advisory committee
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: containing or giving advice
- an advisory verdict
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