advisory

UK/ədˈvaɪzəɹi/US/ædˈvaɪz(ə)ɹi/

adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,288 of 15,258mostly written

Advisory means giving advice rather than orders. An advisory role, an advisory board, advisory only.

The distinction matters: an advisory body can be ignored, and saying a report is advisory tells you exactly how much force it has. As a noun it means an official warning, as in a weather advisory.

Definitions of advisory

1adjectiveadvisoryGiving advice rather than orders.C1
“The committee has an advisory role only; the final decision belongs to the board.”

advisory is a quality.

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*weyd-
Middle English
avisen
English
advise
English, today
advisory

From advise + -ory. advise comes from Middle English avisen. From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Latin advisō, from ad + visō. See also advice.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

advisory in the wild

In the United States, a gale warning is specifically a maritime warning; the land-based equivalent in National Weather Service warning products is a wind advisory.
Gale
An advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation, organization, or foundation.
Advisory board
The informal nature of an advisory board gives greater flexibility in structure and management compared to the board of directors.
Advisory board
On 22 July 2020, the commission was renamed the National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board to better reflect the advisory, not executive, nature of the body.
National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board
The Minister of Heath Fahrettin Koca mentioned in a press conference on 7 April that the advisory board has 35 members.
Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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