advice

Plural: advices

Noun

• Guidance or recommendations offered with regard to future action.
• a proposal for an appropriate course of action
• An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful.
• Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
• Information or news given; intelligence
• In language about financial transactions executed by formal documents, an advisory document.
• In commercial language, information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange
• A communication providing information, such as how an uncertain area of law might apply to possible future actions
• Counseling to perform a specific legal act.
• Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
• In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.

Verb

• Misspelling of advise.

Examples

• a letter of advice
• An advice issued by a Monitoring Committee could be applicable in a Dutch court
• An advice of an incoming settlement payment order may be given to an off-line receiving bank.
• I have some useful advice to give you.
• late advices from France
• My best advice for Scrabble is to memorize the two-letter words.
• My kids never listen to advice.
• On the advice of her doctor, Mary cut down on her carbohydrates.
• She was offered various pieces of advice on what to do.
• Sushil never took the advice of his parents, but still became rich.

Synonyms

admonition, advice, counsel, exhortation, hint, information, notice, recommendation, rede, suggestion, tip

Related Words

advise, adviso, aviso, instruction