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# promote

«promote» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move someone to a higher job or rank: She was promoted…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (promote, promotes, promoted, promoting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move someone to a higher job or rank: She was promoted to manager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#m1)

2) To help something grow or happen: Exercise promotes good health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#m2)

3) To advertise something to make people buy it or come to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#m3)

4) (sport, UK) To move a team up to a higher league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#m4)

5) (school, US) To move a pupil up to the next grade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health «promotes growth» or «promotes health» means helps it. In everyday life shops promote products with adverts and offers. In football in the UK and Ireland a team is promoted (goes up) or relegated (goes down). In chess, a pawn that reaches the last row is promoted, usually to a queen.

### examples

- Dad was promoted at work and got a pay rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x1)
- Sunlight promotes plant growth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x2)
- The band is promoting their new song on the radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x3)
- Our team was promoted to the first division! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x4)
- The pawn reached the end and was promoted to a queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x5)
- Posters promoted the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x6)
- Eating fruit promotes good health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x7)
- At this sight the king was yet more astonished at the cleverness of his steward, and at once promoted him to be the keeper of his jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/#x8)

### note

Noun: promotion (also a special offer in a shop). Opposite in sport: relegate; in jobs: demote. A «promotion» price usually means a discount.

### In the corpora

- [Stars go on chat shows mainly to promote a new film, book or tour, and their funny stories are often practised beforehand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/10/)
- [Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/DAN.104/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «promote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/promote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.