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promotion
/prəˈməʊʃən/ nounDefinition
ADVERTISEMENT [C, U] › activities to advertise something: a sales promotion They're giving away free T-shirts as a special promotion.
JOB [C, U] › when someone is given a more important job in the same organization: She was given a promotion in her first month with the company.
ENCOURAGE [U, no plural] › when you encourage something to happen or develop: the promotion of a healthy lifestyle
(Definition of promotion noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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