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  • noun informal The world of advertising

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Examples

  • The waste is liquidy smooth in the lingo of adland and it is splashing freely on Frank’s stout oxford shoes and fine lisle hose and on the soft woven wool of his town-and-country trousers.

    Underworld

  • The waste is liquidy smooth in the lingo of adland and it is splashing freely on Frank’s stout oxford shoes and fine lisle hose and on the soft woven wool of his town-and-country trousers.

    Underworld

  • The waste is liquidy smooth in the lingo of adland and it is splashing freely on Frank’s stout oxford shoes and fine lisle hose and on the soft woven wool of his town-and-country trousers.

    Underworld

  • Most of what makes up 'adland' (what a stupid name) is orthodoxy dressed up as innovation - the equivalent of David Cameron in a baseball cap.

    The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

  • Most of what makes up 'adland' (what a stupid name) is orthodoxy dressed up as innovation - the equivalent of David Cameron in a baseball cap.

    The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

  • Most of what makes up 'adland' (what a stupid name) is orthodoxy dressed up as innovation - the equivalent of David Cameron in a baseball cap.

    The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

  • Most of what makes up 'adland' (what a stupid name) is orthodoxy dressed up as innovation - the equivalent of David Cameron in a baseball cap.

    The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

  • Look out, then, for ambitious adland folk clutching copies of the cerebral weekly – though it could all be a wily ploy to tempt rival agencies into bullshitting in pitches, having briefed clients in advance that that was what they'd do.

    Media Monkey's Diary

  • He's a door-to-door salesman who went from obscurity to being one of the biggest names in New York adland.

    The last of the Madison Avenue mavericks of Mad Men

  • The brainstorming sessions in adland are causing carnage.

    The Hard Sell: Sodastream

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