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advice noun [ ədˈvʌɪs ]

• guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action.
• "my advice is to see your doctor"
Similar: guidance, advising, counselling, counsel, help, direction, instruction, information, enlightenment, recommendations, guidelines, suggestions, hints, tips, pointers, ideas, opinions, views, facts, data, info, dope, the low-down, the inside story, gen,
• a formal notice of a financial transaction.
• "remittance advices"
• information; news.
• "the want of fresh advices from Europe"
Origin: Middle English: from Old French avis, based on Latin ad ‘to’ + visum, past participle of videre ‘to see’. The original sense was ‘way of looking at something, judgement’, hence later ‘an opinion given’.

take advice

• obtain information and guidance, typically from an expert.
"he should take advice from his accountant"



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