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Verb promote has 5 senses
- promote, advance, boost, further, encourage - contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
--1 is one way to support, back up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "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"
--2 is one way to delegate, designate, depute, assign
Antonyms: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- advertise, advertize, promote, push - make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"
--3 is one way to praise
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue promote the movie
- promote - be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
--4 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- promote - change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent
--5 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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