Word Finder - billboards

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A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.

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A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

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A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.

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A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.

A current ban on tobacco advertising on TV will be extended to billboards.

The campaign included billboards in Birmingham, Coventry and Dudley as well as posters in local newspapers.

Some stations are also flashing alerts to drivers using electronic billboards along the highway.

The real vandals are the advertisers who erected these billboards without our permission, often without even planning permission.

Or bluffing is appears on billboards brown tree-patterned carpeting.

One of Carnival's most successful campaigns was the "Million Ways to Have Fun" program that ran with commercials, billboards, slogans, and other advertising for several years and is still popular today.

On display were some giant inflatable billboards advertising a well known supermarket chain.

Evidently, stray dogs are being used as mobile billboards by rival shops in a Russian city.

Despite some well-publicised cases involving sexually provocative billboards, we find that gender portrayal in advertising is not of major concern to many Australians.

The television network used the public attention of the contest on among other thing billboards where the network congratulated the winners.

With the size of the mall, billboards direct you to this location miles out from the mall itself.

Whichever way you are traveling, you'll see billboards for the mall miles before the exit you need.

It's easy to see how vital images of women are in advertisements -- from billboards promoting lingerie to posters with women sporting the latest hair and make-up trends.

Common sense dictates that the more surface lights that surround you, from office buildings, streetlights and electronic billboards, the more distractions you'll have to deal with.

They are walking billboards that advertise their parents' alternative tastes and culture.

Point out unusual words in magazines, billboards and signs and ask your child to spell that word and use it in a sentence.

Use free advertising like signs on community billboards or word-of-mouth with friends to get customers.

Depending on your budget, you have many options such as passing out flyers, using local newspapers, newsletters, radio announcements and more expensively billboards and TV commercials.

Copywriters can be hired to create Web page content, online ads, customer e-mails, direct mail pieces, white papers, press releases, catalogs, billboards, brochures, sales letters, and commercial scripts.

Toddlers can learn to recognize shapes in ordinary objects, such as billboards (rectangles), cookies (circles), and picture frames (squares).

As early as the 1950's and 1960's, there was criticism regarding advertising movies or other outlets on large billboards.

Critics feel large billboards create a blight on otherwise attractive communities.

However, the large movie studios feel large billboards attract many to their advertisement and hopefully, in turn, to the movie theaters.

Paid ads in radio, television, Web sites, billboards and print media are all ways of getting the attention of your market.

His underwear ads can be seen on billboards across the country.

Fresh from the success of Teardrops on My Guitar, the single soared to the top of the country billboards.

Her modeling credits include billboards in New York's Times Square and a variety of runway shows.

Set in a futuristic multi-ethnic Los Angeles, dominated by Times-Square-like electronic billboards, it is at once both glittering and bleak.

Essentially they become walking billboards to promote services and products.

Today, any upcoming movie release can be seen advertised on large billboards, subway or bus advertisements, magazine blitzes and more.