promote
Verb
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Contribute to the progress or growth of (synset 202560630)
"I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"subtypes:
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Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position (synset 202402779)
"John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"is a type of: assign, delegate, depute, designate - give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)subtypes:
- tenure - give life-time employment to
- bring up - promote from a lower position or rank
- spot promote - promote on the spot
- ennoble, entitle, gentle - give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
- favor, favour, prefer - promote over another
- brevet - promote somebody by brevet, in the military
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Make publicity for;
Try to sell (a product) (synset 200978685)"The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"is a type of: praise - express approval ofsubtypes:- propagandise, propagandize - spread by propaganda
- plug - make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
- bill - advertise especially by posters or placards
- agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press, push - exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
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Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece (synset 201082916)
referred to in: board game - a game played on a specially designed boardis a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesubtypes: queen - become a queenverb group: promote - change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
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Change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent (synset 201082628)
referred to in: chess, chess game - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's kingis a type of: play - use or movesubtypes: queen - promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chessverb group: promote - be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
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