[
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.
- But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
- Our bodies depend on unabsorbed calcium to neutralize potentially harmful byproducts of digestion that can promote colon cancer and kidney stones.
- Measures designed to promote and protect local educational values could be labelled as ‘barriers to trade’.
- Promoted to Commander/05 (22 October 2009), currently in refresher flight training (jets) with Training Wing JOSEPH ANTHONY ROSSI
- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
- The viewer may be a teenage girl, even though the advertisement promotes Viagra.
- Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
- 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.
