A promoter is a person who helps organize and finance an event, especially a sports event.
...one of the top boxing promoters in Britain.
Synonyms: organizer, arranger, entrepreneur, impresario More Synonyms of promoter
2. countable noun
The promoter of a cause or idea tries to make it become popular.
He was an energetic promoter of American music. [+ of]
Synonyms: supporter, champion, advocate, campaigner More Synonyms of promoter
promoter in British English
(prəˈməʊtə)
noun
1.
a person or thing that promotes
2.
a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking
3.
a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match
4. chemistry
a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity
5. genetics
a sequence of nucleotides, associated with a structural gene, that must bind with messenger RNA polymerase before transcription can proceed
promoter in American English
(prəˈmoʊtər; proʊˈmoʊtər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that promotes; specif., a person who begins, secures financing for, and helps to organize an undertaking, as a business or a sports event
2. Chemistry
a substance that will accelerate the effect of a catalyst on a reaction
Word origin
ME < MFr promoteur < ML promotor
Examples of 'promoter' in a sentence
promoter
The promoters have to make their money somewhere and they make it from the teams.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There is a queue of managers and promoters waiting to sign that man up.
The Sun (2008)
Some boxers are looking like the sharks they try to portray managers and promoters as.
The Sun (2008)
Most fighters who become promoters are only interested in making money for themselves.
The Sun (2010)
The promoter accepts no liability for lost or stolen vouchers.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That is because of an agreement between top European promoters to ignore those with serious doping histories.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
At last we are able to compete with the big American promoters who are no longer the draw they once were.
The Sun (2015)
The calendar is packed from March to November each season as clubs and promoters make hay.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
That means promoter, manager, seconds and other fighters on the bill.
The Sun (2012)
She was noticed by agents, managers, promoters.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But the universities have become the chief promoters of that quintessentially humanactivity, inquiry for inquiry's sake.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
In other languages
promoter
British English: promoter NOUN
A promoter is a person who helps organize and finance an event, especially a sports event.
...one of the top boxing promoters in the country.