promotes

Verb

promote (third-person singular simple present promotes, present participle promoting, simple past and past participle promoted)

1. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
   • He promoted his clerk to office manager.

   Synonyms:

   dignify, elevate, uplift, advance, aggrandize, ennoble, exalt, honor, nobilitate, prefer

   Antonyms:

   demote, relegate

2. (transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   pitch, peddle, forward

   Antonyms:

   denigrate, oppose, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear

3. (transitive) 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.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   motivate, provoke, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about

4. (passive, regional) To elevate to a higher league.
   • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
5. (transitive) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
6. (transitive) 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.

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