promote
verbUS /pɹəˈmoʊt/ · UK /pɹəˈməʊt/
Etymology From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).
8 senses
- 1To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or…
- 2To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone)…
- 3To encourage, urge or incite.
- 4To elevate to a higher league.
- 5To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its…
- 6To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it…
- 7To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
- 8To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as…
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.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
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.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.2019 May 21, Israel Alves Corrêa Noletto, Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, “Language and ideology: glossopoesis as a secondary narrative framework in Le Guin’s The dispossessed”, in Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, volume 41, number 2, →DOI:
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
Board games, Chess, Games 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.
Singapore 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.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- to promote an int to a long
- Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.
- Derived terms
- co-promote, copromote, cross-promote, depromote, mispromote, oncopromoting, overpromote, promotability, promotable, promoteability, promotee, promotement, promoter, promote to customer, promote to Glory, promotingly, promotive, promotor, repromote, self-promote, underpromote