promotion

IPA: prʌmˈoʊʃʌn

An advancement in rank or position.
Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
(marketing) An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
(chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
(zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)

Examples of "promotion" in Sentences

The word "promotion" in the music industry has a very specific definition.
So, for Burger King to snap up that exclusivity in promotion is very smart.
But taking your comment instead at face value, what you term promotion I see as learning.
Try later, and you may get lucky, but clearly this promotion is a poorly planned free for all.
In France recently, I took note of how television there announces commercials by displaying the word "promotion" leading into them.
That month the liberal media watchdog Media Matters published a number of examples of what it called promotion of the Tea Party by Fox.
Not so fast freeloaders … the promotion is an invite only friends and family thing, which they have opened up to the tenants of the Empire State Building.
We set up an event at a “B” in Austin, and even with no promotion from the store, or the existence of a regular reading series, the event drew about 78 people.