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 promote [prәu'mәut]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 促进, 晋升, 创办, 推销

[经] 促进, 推广, 推销




    promote
    [ verb ]
    1. contribute to the progress or growth of

    2. <verb.social> advance boost encourage further
      I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom
    3. give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

    4. <verb.social>
      advance elevate kick upstairs raise upgrade
      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
    5. make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

    6. <verb.communication>
      advertise advertize push
      The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
      The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
    7. be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

    8. <verb.competition>
    9. 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

    10. <verb.competition>


    Promote \Pro*mote"\, v. i.
    To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform
    against a person. [Obs.]


    Promote \Pro*mote"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Promoted}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Promoting}.] [L. promotus, p. p. of promovere to move
    forward, to promote; pro forward + movere to move. See
    {Move}.]
    1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of
    (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to
    further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to
    promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a
    business venture. ``Born to promote all truth.'' --Milton.

    2. To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise;
    to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.

    I will promote thee unto very great honor. --Num.
    xxii. 17.

    Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. --Prov. iv.
    18.

    Syn: To forward; advance; further; patronize; help; exalt;
    prefer; elevate; dignify.

    1. The group would be modeled after one established in 1985 to promote bank-fraud prosecutions, said William Hendricks III, head of the department's fraud section.
    2. Through its subsidiaries, Sofipa and Lombardia Fincapital, it can promote risk capital ventures. All these latter activities as well as direct export credit financing, are regarded as non-agency work.
    3. The controversy developed after Mandela, on an otherwise triumphant 14-nation trip to promote his anti-apartheid efforts, said in Dublin that the British government should negotiate with the Irish Republican Army.
    4. Two years ago, Mr. Leber snagged exclusive rights to promote the Moscow Circus in North America.
    5. U.S. efforts to promote negotiations went into a tailspin in March with the collapse of the Israeli government over Baker's formula for the negotiations.
    6. As one of the key points of this new policy is to promote alternatives to the private car, it is perplexing to try and understand how this might be achieved through a planning and development strategy.
    7. "We do have a lot of prisons and we really are grateful that filmmakers think of us when they think of prison movies, but we also have to promote the rest of a very diverse state," he said.
    8. At federal levels, at least half of the island's population would qualify for some kind of welfare, but Mr. Romero Barcelo argues that this would add to consumer demand and promote prosperity.
    9. "You have the State Department trying to smooth relations with friendly nations, you have the Commerce Department trying to promote exports," said the source, who is closely involved with nuclear proliferation issues.
    10. To promote his plan, Uno quickly threw himself into a series of bilateral meetings with leaders of countries both rich and poor, ranging from the United States and Great Britain to Bangladesh and Mexico.
    11. Roy Ayliffe, general manager of the materials division of the Post Office, is to spend a year's secondment with Partnership Sourcing, the joint DTI/CBI initiative set up to promote long-term relationships between purchasers and suppliers.
    12. Traditionally, conservatives have criticized the bank, charging that its policies promote central planning and thus discourages market forces.
    13. Bush's main strategy in South Carolina has been to promote his close ties with President Reagan, who remains popular here.
    14. Moon told the court he went to the north to promote unification. Prosecutors charged that he met with North Koreans to stir up political unrest in South Korea.
    15. Miss Rafko, a registered nurse, used her reign to promote the nursing field.
    16. Roh deplored the bombing, but said his government still needs to promote dialogue with North Korea to avoid a "possibly more tragic incident." Roh also said increasing violence in the National Assembly elections would be suppressed.
    17. Since the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR), an industry-backed, non-profit-making organisation, was set up in 1990 to promote the use of ADR in the UK, almost 250 disputes involving more than Pounds 800m have been referred to it.
    18. "This will promote further scurrying for exports," said Richard Loewy, an analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities Inc., New York.
    19. Two other Conservative members of Parliament also announced they will quit the party and sit as independents to promote Quebec's interests.
    20. On the one hand, by reducing state interference in the economy, it hopes to attract large conglomerates to Bavaria. On the other, the Bavarian government intends to promote an indigenous high-tech industry in the state.
    21. The party must reposition itself as one concerned not to constrain but to promote individual opportunity by reawakening faith in the notion of society.
    22. But the two coutries exchanged trade offices this year and the Soviet Union, closely allied with communist North Korea, has shown willingess to promote non-political ties with South Korea.
    23. The thrust of our advice has been to set in place incentives (e.g., prices) that induce greater efficiency in the use of scarce resources, encourage more and higher quality investment, increase production and savings, and promote private initiative.
    24. Woolwich, Alliance & Leicester, and Cheltenham & Gloucester do little more than promote awareness of their names.
    25. To conserve the memory of flamenco, to promote research into the art and to make contemporary flamenco known to as wide a public as possible are the principal aims of the foundation, according to director Joaquin Carrera.
    26. Unlike Janacek, who is steadily winning acceptance as a repertory composer, Martinu had no Max Brod to translate and promote his stage works.
    27. The allegations focused on the "COS Limited Partnership" Gingrich formed to promote a book, "Window of Opportunity," he wrote with his wife and a third author.
    28. "I am always trying to promote compassion and good heart," he says, the glow returning to his face. "Not as a religious ideal, but rather as a humanitarian idea.
    29. Sometimes Byrne provides an acoustic set of confessional intensity; sometimes he fills the stage with Latin musicians. But with a new album, the eponymous 'David Byrne' to promote, expect a bit of both.
    30. But labor leaders contend that, even amid such defeats, correcting dangerous workplace conditions and helping workers win back pay in wage-and-hour cases promote the perception that a union can still have a concrete impact on the workplace.
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