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Bvpraveen Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Meaning: surrogate advertisements

0 What does 'surrogate advertisements' mean? With the help of the dictionary, I guess that it means the one to be replaced. 02br
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00Context : To ban screening advertisements involving usage of tobacco or cigaretts. 02br
00Sentence : A high level committee has been constitued to look into surrogate advertisements. 0-
  

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0 A wild guess. 02br 00Here "surrogate" might mean "in lieu of", and those advertisements might be for the cigarett, but not flaunting it? With a double meaning?

— Pieanne

  • 0 A wild guess.
  • 02br 00Here "surrogate" might mean "in lieu of", and those advertisements might be for the cigarett, but not flaunting it?
  • With a double meaning?
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0 A wild guess. 02br
00Here "surrogate" might mean "in lieu of", and those advertisements might be for the cigarett, but not flaunting it? With a double meaning? 0-
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0 My guess would be that the committee will be considering whether or not to ban the advertisement of "surrogate" tobacco products -- "fake tobacco" that people who are trying to give up tobacco might purchase instead. 0-
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0 Ah, yes, of course! Thanks, Khoff! 0-
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0 Surrogate advertisements for alcohol or tobacco products can appear within advertisements for something more innocent like bottled water or perfume. The more innocent product is somehow merely the carrier for the disguised, 'surrogate' advertisement. For example, the innocent product may be labeled with the familiar logo of the tobacco company or brewery. The surrogate advertising need not
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0 Like providing T-shirts with their company name and logo? 0-
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0 There's nothing like a little actual knowledge to improve on a lot of intelligent guesswork! 0-
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0 Yes, the T-shirt example is a good one. 0-
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0Nothing that can't be helped by adding a little Google to your arsenal of techniques!050010id1
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0 I couldn't understand what Khoff and CalifJim are trying to say. 02br
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00If it's important, then please explain in detail. 0-
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00I couldn't understand what Khoff and CalifJim are trying to say. 12br
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00In my last post, I meant that even a small amout of factual knowledge, like CalifJim contributed. is more valuable that a large amout of guesses, like Pie
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