advisory
/ədˈvaɪzəɹi/US/ædˈvaɪz(ə)ɹi/
advisory adjective: able to give advice.
Adjective
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.
Noun
advisory (countable and uncountable, plural advisories)
- A warning.
- The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
- Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.2025 August 30, “US beaches warn about water quality due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination this Labor Day weekend”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press
- 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.
- Supervision by an advisor.
- Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.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...
- After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.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...
advisory meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
advisory in Hindi
- advisory
- एडवायज़री eḍvāyzarī
advisory in Tamil
- அறிவுரை அடங்கிய, அறிவுரை கூறுகிற, ஆலோசனை
advisory in Urdu
- مشاورتی
advisory in Bengali
- উপদেশক, উপদেশদানের জন্য নিযুক্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- advisory in Malayalam
- ഔപദേശിക, ഉപദേശപരമായ, ഉപദേശം നൽകുന്ന, ഉപദേശസ്വഭാവമുള്ള
Examples of advisory in a sentence
- The sales training program on cross-selling our best customers profitable advisory services.
- For now, let us hope that the government will act on the advisory committee's recommendations.
- His scientific advisory board reads like the “Who’s Who?” But this is a new dimension of Bigfootology.
Forms of advisory
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more advisory |
| superlative | most advisory |
| Noun | |
| plural | advisories |
Origin of advisory
From advise + -ory.
Words formed from advisory
Phrases with advisory
Questions about advisory
- What does advisory mean?
- Advisory means able to give advice.
- What is advisory in Hindi?
- Advisory in Hindi is एडवायज़री (eḍvāyzarī). See Advisory meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is advisory?
- Advisory can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce advisory?
- Advisory is pronounced /ədˈvaɪzəɹi/ (UK).
Words near advisory in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: advisory (page history and authors); एडवायज़री (Hindi) (page history and authors); advisory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advisory (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advisory (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advisory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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