promote
/pɹəˈmoʊt/ verb B1- 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.
- 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· Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.
He/she/it promotes · Past promoted · Past participle promoted · -ing form promoting
Verb forms
- Base form
- promote
- He/she/it
- promotes
- Past
- promoted
- Past participle
- promoted
- -ing form
- promoting
From the library
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”--by which Latin, geometry, French, and algebra were meant.
They make you graceful and promote digestion.”
“Promote fiddlesticks!” said Marilla, who honestly thought it was all nonsense.
As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures of good-will are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive branch.
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