promote

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
2. 2

   To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone)

   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.
3. 3

   To encourage, urge or incite.

   • 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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   1. 4

      To elevate to a higher league.

      • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
   2. 5

      To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.

   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      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.
   5. 8

      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.

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