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US
/pɹəˈmoʊt/
]
[ UK /pɹəmˈəʊt/ ]
[ UK /pɹəmˈəʊt/ ]
VERB
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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 - change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
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contribute to the progress or growth of
I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom -
give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
Women tend not to advance in the major law firms
I got promoted after many years of hard work
John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired - be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
How To Use promote In A Sentence
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
- She talks to doctors and parents about the risks, finding that a number object to the jab and fear it will promote promiscuity. The Sun
- At the end of the novel she marries the stockjobber, a leading promoter of the American railway scheme.
- All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
- As if a lentivirus from a genetically modified cocoa plant is going to implant a promoter in out cells that will lead to cancer. A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
- His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling. Times, Sunday Times
- Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
- The main purpose of an external house journal is to promote the organization, its products, and its services.
