| 单词 | promote |
| 释义 | promote (once / 126 pages) 1v 2v 3v 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. WORD FAMILYpromote: promoted, promoter, promotes, promoting, promotion, promotive+/promoter: promoters/promotion: promotional, promotions/promotional: promotionally/promotive: promotively USAGE EXAMPLES“When I started looking for work I often felt discrimination and never was promoted.” The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Promoting diversity and upholding basic rights aren’t the same thing. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) On the one hand, Mr. Barnea said, there were already signs that Netanyahu loyalists would try to promote legislation banning investigations of sitting prime ministers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position 2I got promoted after many years of hard work Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate assign to a lower position; reduce in rank tenure give life-time employment to bring uppromote from a lower position or rank spot promotepromote on the spot ennoble, entitle, gentlegive a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility favor, favour, preferpromote over another brevetpromote somebody by brevet, in the military baronetise, baronetizeconfer baronetcy upon lordmake a lord of someone dub, knightraise (someone) to knighthood advantagegive an advantage to assign, delegate, depute, designate give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) 1v contribute to the progress or growth of I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom Syn|Hypo|Hyper advance, boost, encourage, further connive at, wink at give one's silent approval to foster, furtherpromote the growth of spurincite or stimulate helpcontribute to the furtherance of carrytake further or advance feedsupport or promote conduce, contribute, leadbe conducive to back up, support give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to 2v make publicity for; try to sell (a product) 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper 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 propagandise, propagandize spread by propaganda plugmake a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote billadvertise especially by posters or placards agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press, pushexert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for praise express approval of 1v be changed for a superior chess or checker piece Hypo|Hyper queen become a queen change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v 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 Hypo|Hyper queen promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess play use or move |
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