Promote

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
  • v. To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
  • v. To contribute to the progress or growth of; further. See Synonyms at advance.
  • v. To urge the adoption of; advocate: promote a constitutional amendment.
  • v. To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity: commercials promoting a new product.
  • v. To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing: promote a Broadway show.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
  • v. To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
  • v. To encourage, urge or incite
  • v. To elevate to the above league.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite
  • v. To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance.
  • verb-intransitive. To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To contribute to the establishment, growth, enlargement, or improvement of, as of anything valuable, or to the development, increase, or influence of, as of anything evil; forward; advance.
  • To exalt, or raise to a higher post or position; prefer in rank or honor: as, to promote a captain to a majority.
  • To inform against.
  • Synonyms To further, help, encourage, assist.
  • To give information; be an informer.
  • Promoted.
  • In ecclesiastical law, to appeal to an ecclesiastical court, acting therein as informant and receiving compensation or fines exacted from the defendant. Such an informant is called a promoter and the court is said to be promoted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
  • v. contribute to the progress or growth of
  • v. give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
  • v. make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
  • v. 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
  • Antonym
    demote    denigrate    oppose   
    Verb Form
    promoted    promotes    promoting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    forward    further    encourage    advance    excite    elevate    raise    prefer    aid    advanced   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Capote    Choate    Vote    afloat    bloat    boat    capote    choate    coat    connote   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts