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Promote   /prəmˈoʊt/   Listen
Promote

verb
(past & past part. promoted; pres. part. promoting)
1.
Contribute to the progress or growth of.  Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further.
2.
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.  Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade.  "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms" , "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
3.
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product).  Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push.  "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"
4.
Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece.
5.
Change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent.



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"Promote" Quotes from Famous Books



... to prohibit the introduction of slave property into the territories, what would be the purpose? Would it be to promote emancipation? That could not be the effect. In the first settlement of a territory the want of population and the consequent difficulty of procuring hired labor, would induce emigrants to take slaves with them; but if the climate and products of the country were unsuited to African ...
— Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858 • Hon. Jefferson Davis

... with L. Burmanii. In Spain the therapeutic properties of L. dentata are alleged to be even more marked than in the oils of any of the other species of lavender. It is said to promote the healing of sluggish wounds, and when used in the form of inhalation to have given good results in cases of severe catarrh, and even in cases of diphtheria. In odor this oil strongly suggests rosemary and camphor. Its specific gravity is 0.926 at 15 deg. C. It distills ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 • Various

... been overtried in this hideous struggle, and Nature, with her principle of balance, is bound to take redress. For Americans the war, nationally speaking, will have been but a bracing of the muscles and nerves, a clearing of the skin and eyes. Such a mental and moral condition will promote in them a deeper philosophy and a ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... erudition, or to divert men of talents from the prosecution of more important studies, the editors would be among the last to make any addition to the stock already in circulation; but, convinced that, on the contrary, works of that kind promote the advancement of general knowledge, they have no scruple whatever in offering this to the American people; and so firm do they feel in the conviction of its utility, that they let it go into the world, unaided by any of those arts, or specious professions ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Volume I, Number 1 • Stephen Cullen Carpenter

... works. Good influences from sundry Methodists. Exceptions taken by individuals to sundry Broad Church statements in my historical lectures; their favorable reception. Sobering effect upon me of "spiritualistic" fanaticism. My increasing reluctance to promote revolutionary changes in religion; my preference for evolutionary methods. Special experiences. The death-bed of a Hicksite Quaker. My toleration ideas embodied in the Cornell University Charter; successful working of these. Establishment of a university chapel and preachership; my selections ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White


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