promote - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

If you work for a marketing firm, your job is to promote new products — to publicize them and to try to get the public to buy them.

The verb promote can also mean to advance to a higher position. Because of your hard work, your boss might decide to promote you. In school, passing students are promoted each year when they enter a higher grade. In chess, the verb promote is used when a pawn is exchanged for a higher ranking piece. Make sure you promote your pawn to a queen, giving you two queens on the board and a strong advantage in the game.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: promote

1	v	give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
2	v	contribute to the progress or growth of
3	v	be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: promote

1

v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

“I got promoted after many years of hard work”

Synonyms:: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade

Antonyms:: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; 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; baronetise, baronetize
confer baronetcy upon; lord
make a lord of someone; dub, knight
raise (someone) to knighthood; advantage
give an advantage to

Type of:: assign, delegate, depute, designate
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

2

v contribute to the progress or growth of

“I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom”

Synonyms:: advance, boost, encourage, further

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; connive at, wink at
give one's silent approval to; foster, further
promote the growth of; spur
incite or stimulate; help
contribute to the furtherance of; carry
take further or advance; feed
support or promote; conduce, contribute, lead
be conducive to

Type of:: back up, support
give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

v make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

Synonyms:: advertise, advertize, push

: 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

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; 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

Type of:: praise
express approval of

3

v be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

Types:: queen
become a queen

Type of:: change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature

v 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

Types:: queen
promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Type of:: play
use or move