Verb: promote pru'mowt
- Help to progress or develop by actively supporting or advocating
"I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom";
- advance, boost, further, encourage
- Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
"I got promoted after many years of hard work";
- upgrade, advance, kick upstairs [informal], raise, elevate
- Make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
"The company is heavily promoting their new laptops";
- advertise, advertize [US, non-standard], push, flack [N. Amer, informal]
- (draughts) convert a piece to a king upon reaching the opponent's back row
"She promoted her checker after reaching the far side"
- (chess) 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
"She promoted her pawn to a queen"
Derived forms: promoting, promotes, promoted
Type of: assign, back up, change, delegate, depute, designate, play, praise, support
Encyclopedia: Promote