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ad captandum

ad captandum adjective: attempting to win popular favour, or to dupe the public.

Adjective

ad captandum (not comparable)

  1. Attempting to win popular favour, or to dupe the public.

Origin of ad captandum

From Latin ad + captandum (“for catching”).

Questions about ad captandum

What does ad captandum mean?
Ad captandum means attempting to win popular favour, or to dupe the public.
What part of speech is ad captandum?
Ad captandum is an adjective.

Words near ad captandum in the dictionary

  1. ad banner
  2. ad banners
  3. ad blindness
  4. ad break
  5. ad breaks
  6. ad captandum
  7. ad coelum
  8. Ad Dammam
  9. ad damnum
  10. ad eundem
  11. ad feminam

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