Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Proper to be advised; prudent; expedient; proper to be done or practised.
  • Open to or desirous of advice; capable of being influenced by advice.
  • Synonyms Fit, desirable, wise, best.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
  • adjective rare Ready to receive advice.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a course of action Worthy of being recommended; desirable.
  • adjective of a person Capable of being advised or willing to be advised.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise

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Examples

  • First, about the need to use your Carleton email account (which I hope my email to the CCS Service Desk will facilitate its functionality): It is advisable from a representational viewpoint, when conducting university business, to use the email from that business entity, and, we, as an institution, have negotiated with the Ontario Privacy Office that we will conduct business from our Carleton email accounts because email is not a secure medium.

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  • Fifth, A liberality, when advisable, which is only possible to those who also economize.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • The next opportunity, however, was given away to the son of a political supporter; it was "advisable" to do this, and the Duke had to consider what was advisable.

    Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

  • She said it would be "advisable" for the government to make significant revisions to funding earmarked for financial-sector bailout.

    The St. Petersburg Times 2009

  • She said it would be "advisable" for the government to make significant revisions to funding earmarked for financial-sector bailout.

    The St. Petersburg Times 2009

  • Section forty-two of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws, as amended by chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "advisable" in the twenty-seventh line the following sentence: — In case a decrease in the number of pupils in the schools of a town renders advisable the dismissal of one or more teachers, a teacher who is serving at the discretion of a school com - mittee under section forty-one shall not be dismissed if there is a teacher not serving at discretion whose position the teacher serving at discretion is qualified to fill.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • As far as is practical, it would be advisable to have elderly servants only in families, and the young should be employed wholly in agrestic and other manual labours.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Although a dog can live on cat food alone unlike cats and a lifetime of dog foods, it's not considered advisable.

    Vet's view: It's a dog-eat-dog-food world 2011

  • In this present time where in Online marketing and blogging had been a phenomenon, it is really advisable to think of new ways on how your site will attract visitors, making your site attractive and its content interesting will be very helpful for you

    Women Grow Business » The Inspired yet Tired Entrepreneur: Ideas for When Your Energy Is Low 2009

  • "Notwithstanding occasional spells of credit-market pressure, further incremental monetary policy tightening is advisable to ensure inflation moderates and to prevent inflationary expectations becoming unanchored," the report said.

    OECD for Raising Rates to Combat Inflation in India Abhrajit Gangopadhyay of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

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