want ad

noun

Definition of want ad

: a newspaper advertisement stating that something (such as an employee, employment, or a specified item) is wanted

Examples of want ad in a Sentence

She checked the want ads to find a new job.

Recent Examples on the Web By then, Weis went looking for supplemental income and responded to a want ad for a telephone sales rep at a Mill Valley software firm. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021 Another is that the library's board of trustees posted a want ad for a new director on Wednesday. — Arkansas Online, 6 June 2021 My parents had chosen Eugene after seeing photos of tall conifers and a dramatic nearby coast, along with a want ad for a one-year job there teaching philosophy, my father’s discipline at the time. — Rachel Kushner, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021 Before the pandemic, the department usually released a list of the five occupations with the most online wanted ads showing up on the state’s free online jobs database, as well as corporate and traditional job boards. — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 30 May 2020 That’s going to take more than a couple help wanted ads. — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019 Some companies, like HydroChemPSC (No. 20, formed in 1968) and HISCO (No. 31, formed in 1970), would often appear in the newspaper through want ads. — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2019

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