advisory.

1. Providing advice or recommendations rather than a binding determination.

2. An official notice giving guidance or warning about a condition or risk.

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Words that belong together

• advisory opinion
• advisory committee

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The advisory committee recommended a change but could not adopt it on its own.

The opinion was advisory under the stated arrangement rather than a binding judgment.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable for a specified formal status; compare degree only where the context genuinely concerns a gradable capacity or characteristic. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: status distinction, institutional analysis, scope qualification, rights analysis. Disciplines: formal writing, institutional procedures, legal-administrative language. Commonness: moderately common.