Dictionary Definition
promote
Verb
1 contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am
promoting the use of computers in the classroom" [syn: advance, boost, further, encourage]
2 give a promotion to or assign to a higher
position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired";
"Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted
after many years of hard work" [syn: upgrade, advance, kick
upstairs, raise,
elevate] [ant: demote]
3 make publicity for; try to sell (a product);
"The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The
company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" [syn: advertise, advertize, push]
4 be changed for a superior chess or checker
piece
5 change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the
eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by
moving it the row closest to your opponent
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊt
Verb
- To raise someone to a
more important,
responsible or
better paid job or rank
- He promoted his chief clerk to a position on the board.
- To advocate or
urge the adoption of something
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- To attempt to
popularize or
sell a product by advertising or publicity
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
Antonyms
Translations
to raise someone to a more important,
responsible or better paid job or rank
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 增进 (zēngjìn)
- Czech: povýšit
- Dutch: promotie maken, promoveren, bevorderen
- Finnish: ylentää
- French: promouvoir
- German: befördern
- Hungarian: elősegíteni
- Italian: promuovere
- Japanese: 増進させる (ぞうしんさせる, zōshin saseru)
- Korean: 진급시키다 (jin-geupsikida)
- Portuguese: promover
- Russian: способствовать (sposóbstvovat’)
- Spanish: promover
- Swedish: befordra
to advocate or urge the adoption of something
to attempt to popularize or sell a product by
advertising or publicity
- Czech: propagovat
- Dutch: promoten (barbarism), bekend maken
- Finnish: mainostaa
Extensive Definition
Promotion may mean:
promote in German: Promotion
promote in Spanish: Promoción
promote in French: Promotion
promote in Italian: Promozione
(disambigua)
promote in Dutch: Promotie
promote in Japanese: プロモーション
promote in Polish: Promocja
promote in Slovenian: Promocija
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abet,
acculturate, act
for, actuate, advance, advantage, advertise, advocate, aggrandize, aid, ameliorate, amend, animate, answer, assist, back, ballyhoo, bark, be instrumental, be right,
befit, befitting, benefit, better, bill, boost, bring forward, build up,
bulletin, call
attention to, champion,
circularize,
civilize, commend, communicate, compel, conduce to, contribute
to, cry, cry up, develop, do the trick, edify, educate, elevate, emend, encourage, endorse, energize, enhance, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, espouse, establish, exalt, expedite, facilitate, fatten, favor, fill the bill, fit, force, forward, foster, further, galvanize, give a write-up,
give publicity, go between, go straight, graduate, hasten, help, hype, impart, impel, improve, improve upon, inspire, inspirit, kick upstairs,
knight, lard, lend wings to, lift, make an improvement, make
for, mediate, meliorate, mend, minister to, motivate, move, move to action, not come
amiss, nurture, pass, patronize, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, prefer, present, press-agent, profit, propagandize, propel, publicize, puff, push, push forward, put forward,
quicken, raise, recommend, refine upon,
reform, sanction, sell, serve, set forward, set in motion,
side with, socialize,
spark, speak for, speak
highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, speed, spiel, sponsor, stimulate, straighten out,
strengthen, subserve, suit the occasion,
support, tout, transfigure, transform, up, upgrade, uplift, work, write up