Promote Promoted Prəˈməʊt Extra Examples Verb Band Tour

• the band has gone on tour to promote their new album.
• this trade fair will help businesses from malawi to promote their products.
• the area is being promoted as a tourist destination.
• to promote democracy/peace/understanding/health

promote

Verb Forms

1. to help sell a product, service, etc. or make it more popular by advertising it or offering it at a special price
• The band has gone on tour to promote their new album.
• This trade fair will help businesses from Malawi to promote their products.
• The area is being promoted as a tourist destination.

Extra Examples

• The company's products have been promoted mainly through advertising in newspapers.
• The new products have been very heavily promoted.
2. to help something to happen or develop
• SYNONYM encourage
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/encourage
• to promote democracy/peace/understanding/health
• I applaud his efforts to promote world peace.
• to promote the development/use of something
• policies to promote economic growth
• a campaign to promote awareness of environmental issues
• The exhibition was intended to promote interest in contemporary sculpture.
• We think football can help to promote the idea of a multicultural and multiethnic society.
• Vietnam has actively promoted foreign investment.

Extra Examples

• Bonus payments to staff serve to promote commitment to the company.
• Human rights are strongly promoted by all our members.
• The idea of equal opportunities was strongly promoted by many Labour MPs.
• They claimed that the authorities had deliberately promoted and condoned the violence.
• Young people's awareness of agricultural issues is promoted through publicity material.
• The aim of the culture festival is to promote friendship between the two countries.
• The church tries to promote racial harmony.
3. to move somebody to a higher rank or more senior job
• OPPOSITE demote
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/demote
• She worked hard and was soon promoted.
• He has been promoted to sergeant.
• He was an experienced officer who had been promoted from the ranks.
• She was promoted from finance director to chief executive.

Extra Examples

• He was promoted from deputy minister to minister last year.
• He was promoted to the rank of captain.
• a recently promoted headteacher
4. to move a sports team from playing with one group of teams to playing in a better group
• OPPOSITE relegate
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/relegate
• They were promoted to the First Division last season.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin promot- ‘moved forward’, from the verb promovere, from pro- ‘forward, onward’ + movere ‘to move’.