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promote
- /pɹəˈmoʊt/ US
- /pɹəˈməʊt/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊt
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Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin prōmoveō
Latin prōmōtusbor.
English promote
From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).
verb promotes · promoting · promoted
- To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity. They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- To encourage, urge or incite. so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
- To elevate to a higher league. At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
- To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
- To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank. Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
- To move on to a subsequent stage of education. At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
- To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority. to promote an int to a long
