or adver, subs. (printers’).—An ‘advertisement.’
1854. DICKENS, Household Words, xiii. 9. The really interesting ADS are in the body of the paper.
1874. BEETON, The Siliad, 200. ‘ADS’ as numerous as ocean sands.
1888. New York Times, 6 April [The country editor’s wife—] … reads the ADS with the editor, Just to find what each has paid.
1901. Free Lance, 27 April, 79, 1. Some big Sheffield firm ought to be able to make a roaring AD out of this.
