promote
IPA: prʌmˈoʊt
verb
- (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
- (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
- (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
- (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.
- (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
- (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
- (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
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Examples of "promote" in Sentences
- They need to be taken off the air since all they promote is division and hatred in this country which is the last thing we need.
- I guess the main principle we want to promote is a simple principle of “say on pay,” that shareholders have a chance to actually scrutinize what CEOs are getting paid.
- The White House and all serious academia have black listed FoX News because everything they say, write and promote is based on emotion, ignorance and intolerance for other views and other non-white races.
- At a meeting with progressive bloggers yesterday, Obama addressed the stomping of the MoveOn. org activist and the rise in violence, saying, I think that one of the things that I've always tried to promote is civility in politics.
- The only freedom modern “libertarians” seem to promote is the freedom of deregulation, the freedom to support the second and only the second amendment, the freedom of minority oppression and the freedom to tell you what your freedoms are.
- What I promote is the idea that more people share my expectations, so fewer people are harmed by government failure, and so we can stop this slide toward increasingly large portions of our lives being subject to the whims, interests, and prejudices of politicians.
- For those Republicans, they only moral and family values they seem to want to talk about and promote is opposition to gay marriage and other rights, and opposition to abortion; they never want to discuss those judeo-christian which may actually cost money to address, such a looking after the less fortunate.
- The only freedom modern “libertarians” seem to promote is the freedom of deregulation, the freedom to support the second and only the second amendment, the freedom of minority oppression and the freedom to tell you what your freedoms are. bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says:
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