Madison Avenue

noun [U] MARKETING

Definition

› a street in New York City where many advertising agencies have offices, and which is often used to refer to the US advertising industry as a whole: The flashy ad campaign shows what Madison Avenue can do.

(Definition of Madison Avenue noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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