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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 Don Delillo 2008

  • 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 Don Delillo 2008

  • 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 Don Delillo 2008

  • 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!] Robert 2010

  • 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!] Robert 2010

  • 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!] Robert 2010

  • 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!] Robert 2010

  • 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 2011

  • 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 2010

  • The brainstorming sessions in adland are causing carnage.

    The Hard Sell: Sodastream 2010

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