Meaning of promote in English

promote

verb

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/prəˈmoʊt/

promote verb (ENCOURAGE)

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B2 [ T ]

to encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something:

Advertising companies are always having to think up new ways to promote products.

The Institute is intended to promote an understanding of the politics and culture of the Arab world.

Greenpeace works to promote awareness of the dangers that threaten our planet today.

It has long been known that regular exercise promotes all-round good health.

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The government should be playing a more prominent role in promoting human rights.
The organization is working with young people to promote awareness of the dangers of unprotected sex.
The band are currently touring to promote their new album.
The city is trying to lose its industrial image and promote itself as a tourist centre.
Cutting the bush back in the autumn will help promote growth in the spring.

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Advertising and marketing

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Encouraging and urging on

promote verb (RAISE)

B1 [ T often passive ]

to raise someone to a higher or more important position or rank:

If I'm not promoted within the next two years, I'm going to change jobs.

She's just been promoted to senior sales rep.

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demote

[ T ] UK

to move a sports team to a higher group:

If Coventry City win this match, they'll be promoted to the Premier League.

[ T often passive ] US

If a student is promoted, he or she goes up to the next level in school.

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It is my considered opinion that he should be promoted.
He's deluding himself if he thinks he's going to be promoted this year.
She was very demotivated by being told she had little chance of being promoted.
What's her official designation now she's been promoted?
She has been promoted from deputy manager to senior manager.

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Promoting staff

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Competitors & participants in sports & games

Schools in general

(Definition of promote from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

promote | American Dictionary

promote

verb [ T ]

/prəˈmoʊt/

promote verb [T] (ADVERTISE)

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to advertise something in order to sell it:

The new model cars are being heavily promoted on television.

promote verb [T] (ENCOURAGE)

to encourage or support something, or to help something become successful:

A new campaign has been launched to promote safe driving.

promote verb [T] (ADVANCE)

to advance someone to a more important rank or position:

She was promoted to division manager last year.

A student who is promoted advances to the next grade (= level of schooling).

(Definition of promote from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

promote | Business English

promote

verb [ T ]

/prəˈməʊt/ us

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MARKETING

to encourage people to buy or want something, through advertising, offers of lower prices, special events, etc.:

Marks was there promoting his new book.

The vaccine is being heavily promoted by its maker.

The guide has been designed to promote sales of their financial products.

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GOVERNMENT, COMMERCE, ECONOMICS

to encourage the existence or development of something:

promote growth/business/development

promote efficiency/innovation

promote trade/competition

promote democracy/diversity

HR, WORKPLACE

to give someone a higher or more important job or rank:

Before being promoted, she worked as a senior manager for 15 years.

promote sb to sth In August, he was promoted to the homicide division.

STOCK MARKET

to start listing (= giving the price of) a company's shares on a more important stock index (= system that shows changes of the average prices of shares on a particular stock market):

promote sth to sth All eight companies are to be promoted to the FTSE 100 index.

(Definition of promote from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of promote

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To promote ease of presentation, this path diagram represents only one twin in a pair (though the results are identical for the co-twin).

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Trainees reported having to work hard to promote the role and to build effective working relationships with colleagues.

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However, the main campaign issue was on promoting economic development and reducing the high unemployment rate.

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Some of the principal roles of taxonomies are to facilitate human understanding, impart structure on an ontology and promote tenable integration.

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Adhesion is then promoted by compressive states of stresses, which leads to the closure of the cavities.

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Innovations in agriculture tend to promote deforestation, although in the case of land-augmenting technical change this result is ambiguous.

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In this capacity, its basic task is to combat error and thereby to promote truth.

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Both styles seem to promote the child's participation, though the way in which this is achieved seems to differ.

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There is now powerful experimental evidence that this tends to promote and maintain cooperation.

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Interviewers and observers were thoroughly trained prior to collecting data, and ongoing recalibration meetings were held to promote measurement fidelity and reliability.

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Our ultimate goal is to promote healthy growth and development.

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In this case, the density field promotes global tilting, whereas the viscosity field favours a straight vertical interface.

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It promotes understanding between cultures, creates the relevant platform for international cooperation, and promotes international solidarity.

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But is there any reasonable justice relation that always promotes role in our evaluation of the claim of separability.

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Neuronal death in the hippocampus is promoted by plasmin-catalyzed degradation of laminin.

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What is the pronunciation of promote?

B2,B1

Translations of promote

in Chinese (Traditional)

鼓勵, 促進, 促銷，推銷…

Meaning of promote in English

promote verb (ENCOURAGE)

promote verb (RAISE)

promote | American Dictionary

promote verb [T] (ADVERTISE)

promote verb [T] (ENCOURAGE)

promote verb [T] (ADVANCE)

promote | Business English

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