noun.
An opinion recommended, or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel; suggestion.
noun.
Deliberate consideration; reflection; cogitation.
noun.
Information; notice; intelligence; a communication, especially from a distance, containing information: as, to receive advice of a coming storm, or advices from abroad.
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Specifically In com., a notification by one person to another in respect to a business transaction in which they are mutually engaged, as information given by one party to another, by letter, as to the bills or drafts drawn upon him; formal official notice.