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Want ad   /wɑnt æd/   Listen
Want ad

noun
1.
A newspaper advertisement stating what is wanted.





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"Want ad" Quotes from Famous Books



... to advise all beginners in journalism to apply for jobs as reporters. Some of the most successful magazine contributors in America have never set foot inside of a newspaper plant except to pay a subscription to the paper or to insert a want ad for a ...
— If You Don't Write Fiction • Charles Phelps Cushing
... system of reasoning he deduced that ten o'clock would be none too early to expect some returns from his ad, and therefore at ten promptly he presented himself at the Want Ad Department in ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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