want ad
noun
: a newspaper advertisement stating that something (such as an employee, employment, or a specified item) is wanted
Examples of want ad in a Sentence
She checked the want ads to find a new job.
Recent Examples on the Web
The prices are lower than those rumors suggested, though: €9.99 ($10.58) a month for a web-only experience, and €12.99 for those who want ads removed from Meta’s iOS and Android apps.
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David Meyer, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
Microsoft should respect the fact that people already pay for Windows and don’t want ads shoved down their throats.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
The metal legends formed in 1981 after Mars placed a want ad in the Recycler that Sixx and Lee answered.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
In 1942, her mother spotted a want ad that said the publisher Fiction House was looking for cartoonists and encouraged her to apply.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
He was born Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in the Bavarian village of Marktl am Inn, the third child of a police officer and a cook who had met through a want ad in the local newspaper.
—Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
Like so many 21st-century humans looking for love, a female black widow in the mood puts a want ad on the web.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
Consumers don't want ad experiences that come off invasive, phony, or salesy.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 7 July 2022
By then, Weis went looking for supplemental income and responded to a want ad for a telephone sales rep at a Mill Valley software firm.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
David Meyer, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
Microsoft should respect the fact that people already pay for Windows and don’t want ads shoved down their throats.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
The metal legends formed in 1981 after Mars placed a want ad in the Recycler that Sixx and Lee answered.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
In 1942, her mother spotted a want ad that said the publisher Fiction House was looking for cartoonists and encouraged her to apply.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
He was born Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in the Bavarian village of Marktl am Inn, the third child of a police officer and a cook who had met through a want ad in the local newspaper.
—Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
Like so many 21st-century humans looking for love, a female black widow in the mood puts a want ad on the web.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
Consumers don't want ad experiences that come off invasive, phony, or salesy.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 7 July 2022
By then, Weis went looking for supplemental income and responded to a want ad for a telephone sales rep at a Mill Valley software firm.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1895, in the meaning defined above
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want ad
noun
: a newspaper advertisement stating that something (as an employee, job, or item) is wanted
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