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n. The act of promoting or the fact of being promoted; advancement.

n. Encouragement of the progress, growth, or acceptance of something; furtherance.

n. Advertising; publicity.

n. An advancement in rank or position.

n. Dissemination of information about a product, product line, brand, or company.

n. The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.

n. The act of promoting; advancement; encouragement: as, the promotion of virtue or morals; the promotion of peace or of discord.

n. Advancement in rank or honor; preferment.

n. The act of informing; the laying of an information against any one.

n. To be on good behavior or diligent in duty with a view to recommending one's self for promotion.

n. Synonyms See progress.

n. encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

n. the advancement of some enterprise

n. a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

n. act of raising in rank or position

"But taking your comment instead at face value, what you term promotion I see as learning."

encouragement    progress    advancement   

lineal promotion    to be on one's promotion   

promotional   

preferment    advancement    aid   

Laotian    Ocean    commotion    demotion    devotion    emotion    locomotion    lotion    motion    notion   

advancement    acquisition    employment    reward    development    improvement    recognition    benefit    maintenance    success