say it: ad-VAHY-zur-ee
advisory is a noun and adjective meaning "an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat
“a frost advisory”
giving advice
“an advisory memorandum”
“his function was purely consultative”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for advisory come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.