Promote

Quick meaning: Promote is a verb meaning (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

Meaning

(transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
2. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
3. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.
4. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
5. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
6. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
7. (transitive, programming) To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.

Example Sentences

He promoted his clerk to office manager.

They promoted the new film with giant billboards.

They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

Word Forms

• promotes
• promoting
• promoted

Synonyms for promote

Depending on context, synonyms include dignify, elevate, uplift, advance, aggrandize, ennoble.

Antonyms for promote

Common opposites include demote, relegate, denigrate, oppose, assassinate, asperse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include advance, elevate, raise, further, boost, upgrade.

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