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To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.transitive
- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
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To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.transitive
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
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To encourage, urge or incite.transitive
- so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
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To elevate to a higher league.passiveregional
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
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To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.transitive
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To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.transitive
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
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To move on to a subsequent stage of education.Singaporeintransitive
- At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
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To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.transitive
- to promote an int to a long
- Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.
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