Promote Promoted Economic Growth Awareness Issues Destination Verb

• policies to promote economic growth
• a campaign to promote awareness of environmental issues
• the band has gone on tour to promote their new album.
• the area is being promoted as a tourist destination.

promote

1. to help something to happen or develop
• synonym encourage
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/encourage
• policies to promote economic growth
• a campaign to promote awareness of environmental issues
2. 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.
• The area is being promoted as a tourist destination.
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.
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.

Extra Examples

• Basketball stars have helped promote the sport overseas.
• Bonus payments to staff serve to promote commitment to the company.
• He was promoted from deputy minister to minister last year.
• He was promoted to the rank of captain.
• Human rights are strongly promoted by all our members.
• The company’s products have been promoted mainly through advertising in newspapers.
• The country is now being promoted as a travel destination.
• The idea of equal opportunities was strongly promoted by many Labour MPs.
• The new products have been very heavily promoted.
• They claimed that the authorities had deliberately promoted and condoned the violence.
• Young people’s awareness of agricultural issues is promoted through publicity material.
• a recently promoted headteacher
• measures designed to promote economic growth
• Basketball stars from the US have helped promote the sport in Italy and Spain.
• The aim of the culture festival is to promote friendship between the two countries.
• The church tries to promote racial harmony.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they promote
• he / she / it promotes
• past simple promoted
• past participle promoted
• -ing form promoting

Word Origin

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