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单词 promote
释义
promotepro‧mote /prəˈməʊt $ -ˈmoʊt/ ●●○ W2 AWL verb [transitive] Entry menu
MENU FOR promotepromote1 encourage2 better job3 sell4 sport5 persuade6 arrange
Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpromote
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin past participle of promovere ‘to move forward’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
promote
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theypromote
he, she, itpromotes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theypromoted
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave promoted
he, she, ithas promoted
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad promoted
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill promote
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have promoted
Continuous Form
PresentIam promoting
he, she, itis promoting
you, we, theyare promoting
PastI, he, she, itwas promoting
you, we, theywere promoting
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been promoting
he, she, ithas been promoting
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been promoting
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be promoting
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been promoting
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A balanced diet promotes good health and normal development.
  • Allen goes from school to school to promote his anti-drug message.
  • Chambers says the council could do more to promote recycling.
  • Did you hear that David's been promoted?
  • Include workout activities that promote flexibility and strength.
  • Kits promoting "Sesame Street" have been sent to day-care centers.
  • Meg Ryan is in Europe to promote her new movie.
  • Shula was promoted to head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991.
  • The aim of the meeting is to promote trade between the two countries.
  • The company promotes women and minorities whenever possible.
  • They're trying to promote Dubai as a tourist destination.
  • To promote their new shampoo, they are selling it at half price for a month.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Although the latter provision was rejected by the House of Representatives, the idea was formulated and promoted by the Reagan administration.
  • Better if Austin promoted itself as a spa.
  • It was based on a fusion of the commitment to full employment and a desire to promote consumer choice.
  • Manufacturers, through brokers, pay incentives, either cash or products, to stock particular foods or to promote them.
  • The writing was on the wall early in the tour when Ian Salisbury was promoted from supernumerary net bowler to fully-fledged tourist.
  • This will also bring in useful revenue to promote the railway.
  • We opted to promote the band at a local level, and not nationally.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
verb [intransitive, transitive] to tell people about a product or service and try to persuade them to buy it, for example in a newspaper, television, or Internet advertisement: · Some universities advertise on television.· She has signed a deal to advertise the company's haircare products.
verb [transitive] to try to increase the sales or popularity of a product or event, for example by selling it at a lower price or talking about it on television: · He's in London to promote his new album.
verb [transitive] to try to sell a product or service by deciding which type of people are likely to buy it and by making it interesting to them: · The collection is being marketed as clothing for climbers and skiers.· Most companies have agreed not to market products to children under 12.
(also publicise British English) verb [transitive] to tell the public about something by writing about it in newspapers, speaking about it on television etc: · He had done a lot of interviews to publicize his new book.· The hostages' case has been widely publicized.
verb [transitive] informal to try to make people think something is good or important by advertising or talking about it a lot on television, the radio etc. Hype is often used when you do not trust the information: · The boxing match was being hyped as the biggest fight of the decade.
verb [transitive] informal to advertise a book, film etc by talking about it on television or radio: · Marc was on the show to plug his new play.
Longman Language Activatorto advertise something
to tell people publicly about a product or service in order to try to persuade them to buy it, for example by showing short films on television, or by showing pictures with words in newspapers and magazines: · There was a big poster advertising a well-known brand of cola.· We are a small business so we can only afford to advertise in the local press.be advertised on TV/on the radio: · "How did you find out about the new software?" "It was advertised on TV."be advertised in a newspaper/magazine etc: · The concert was advertised in all the national newspapers.be heavily advertised (=be advertised a lot): · Young smokers tend to buy the brands that are most heavily advertised.
to try to make people buy a new product, see a new film etc, for example by selling it at a lower price or talking about it on television: · Meg Ryan is in Europe to promote her new movie.· To promote their new shampoo, they are selling it at half price for a month.promote something as something: · They're trying to promote Dubai as a tourist destination.
also publicise British to tell the public about a situation, event, organization, problem by advertising, writing, or speaking about it on television, in newspapers etc: · Hollywood gossips were saying that the studio lacked the funds to publicize its new film properly.· A good estate agent will know the best ways to publicize the fact that your home is for sale.· A series of articles and television shows publicized concerns that the chemical Alar, used to keep apples red and firm, could cause cancer.well-/highly/widely/much publicized (=publicized a lot): · Jurors were asked what they knew about the highly publicized case.
to try to sell a product or service by deciding which type of people are likely to buy it and by making it attractive and interesting to them: · In order to market a product well, you need to be aware of public demand.· The company has exclusive European rights to market the new software.
informal to try to make people interested in a product, entertainer, film etc, using television, radio, and newspapers - use this to show that you do not trust this kind of information: · Like most Hollywood movies it was so hyped up that when I saw it I was completely disappointed.· The cosmetics industry is usually quick to hype its new products.
informal also give something a plug especially British informal to try to persuade people to buy a book, see a film etc, by talking about it publicly, especially on television or radio: · The only reason she agreed to be interviewed was to plug her new record.· The author used the opportunity of appearing on TV to give his latest book a plug.
to encourage people to buy something: · There's no question about it - scandal sells newspapers.sell something to somebody: · It's not just a question of making a good product - we also have to go out and sell it to people.
informal to try to sell more of a product or service by advertising it a lot: · Revlon is really pushing its new range of beauty creams.
to help something to happen
to help something such as an improvement to happen: · The plan was intended to help development in rural areas.help do something: · Spending time in Spain should help improve her Spanish.help to do something: · It is hoped that the tax increases will help to stabilize the economy.
to make something more likely to happen or make people more likely to do something, often something that you think they should not do: · Congress is considering tax breaks to encourage investment.· Damp conditions encourage the growth of the fungus.encourage somebody to do something: · Cigarette machines in the streets will only encourage more teenagers to smoke.
formal: promote good relations/cooperation/trade etc to help something good to happen or to develop and increase: · The aim of the meeting is to promote trade between the two countries.· A balanced diet promotes good health and normal development.
formal to help something get better, develop, grow etc: · The country's economic recovery has been aided by increased international trade.· The large number of Latino voters aided Garcia's victory in the last election.
to give advantages to someone or something, so that something can improve: · Critics argue that the tax cuts will only benefit large companies.· Admission is $5, with proceeds benefiting a local children's charity.
to help something you are trying to do to be successful: · Separatist rebels have used terrorism to advance their cause in the region.· The associations allow professionals to band together to further their interests.
formal if a situation is conducive to something such as work, rest etc, it provides the conditions that make it easier: · All this noise is hardly conducive to rest and relaxation.· We want to create an atmosphere conducive to serious discussion.
to help something such as a business so that it suddenly begins to develop more quickly: · The recent drop in interest rates has given the economy a much needed boost.give sth a boost to: · The central government also privatized farmland, giving a boost to food production.
British /be favorable for/to American written if conditions are favourable for or to something such as an agreement or an improvement in a situation, they make it more likely to happen: · The conditions are now favorable for job creation and economic growth.· The conference has produced a political climate that is favourable to a peace settlement.
to move to a more important job
to give someone who works in an organization a more important job than the one they had before: · The company promotes women and minorities whenever possible.be promoted: · Did you hear that David's been promoted?promote somebody to something: · Shula was promoted to head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991.
to move someone to another job, usually a better, more important one within the same organization: · No-one thought they would make him manager so soon after joining the company.· He's been made Head of Security at the Chicago National Bank.
when someone is given a more important job in an organization: · Civil service tests determine promotion in government jobs.· What are my chances of promotion if I stay here?get a promotion: · She got a promotion last year.
formal when someone moves up to a better, more important job: · Many people are forced to move from one city to another in search of better jobs or career advancement.
also work your way up the ladder to gradually become more and more successful, and get better, more important jobs: · Feldman started working for the company at age 18, and slowly worked his way up the ladder.· Education is vital to help these children to move up the career ladder.
to move someone up in a job, especially by making the job they are already doing more important, and by paying them more for it: · The women demanded that their work be upgraded.upgrade somebody to something: · After the inspector's visit all temporary workers were upgraded to permanent status.
WORD SETS
ABC1, nounabove the line, adjectiveadoption curve, advert, nounadvertise, verbadvertisement, nounadvertising agency, nounaffiliate marketing, aftermarket, nounAIDA, nounair time, announcement, nounaudience research, Audit Bureau of Circulation, nounbait-and-switch, adjectiveBDI, below the line, adjectivebillboard, nounblind test, brand extension, nounbrand extension strategy, brand stretching, nounBritish Rate and Data, nounbusiness gift, business-to-business advertising, button ad, nounbuying decision, nounbuying habits, nounC2DE, nouncannibalization, nouncanvassing, nouncareline, nouncategory killer, nounCLV, cognitive dissonance, nouncolumn-inch, nounComdex, nouncommodity product, competitive intelligence, nouncompetitive strategy, concept testing, nounconsumer behaviour, consumer panel, consumer resistance, conversion rate, copy testing, nouncopywriter, nouncore competence, cost-per-click, nouncost per impression, nouncost per thousand, nounCPC, creative brief, creative director, cross promotion, customer-centric, adjectivecustomer loyalty, customer profile, customer profiling, customer research, dealer aids, noundemand curve, derisk, verbdirect-to-consumer advertising, drip method, noun-driven, suffixelectronic point of sale, empty nesters, nounendorse, verbendorser, nounend-to-end, adjectiveevent management, field research, first mover, nounfirst-mover advantage, flyer, noungimmick, nounhalo effect, high end, nounhoarding, nounHouse of Quality, nounincome group, island display, jingle, nounknocking copy, last-mover advantage, lead user, line extension, nounline stretching, nounmailing list, nounmailshot, nounmakegood, nounmarket-oriented, adjectiveMarlboro Friday, nounmerchandiser, nounmotivational research, nicher, nounnichist, nounonline catalogue, o.n.o., opinion leader, nounopportunities to see, nounpack shot, nounpeople meter, positioning, nounposter, nounPR, nounpress agent, nounpress communications, press kit, price-insensitive, adjectiveprice-sensitive, adjectiveprint advertising, private-label, adjectiveproblem child, nounproduct differentiation, product parity, promo, nounpromote, verbpromotion, nounpromotional, adjectiveprospectus, nounpublicist, nounpublicity, nounpublicize, verbpublic relations, nounpulsing, nounpush, verbrebrand, verbreference group, remarket, verbreposition, verbsaleable, adjectivesales analysis, sales channel, sales engineer, sales incentive, sales resistance, sandwich board, nounsecond-mover advantage, selling point, nounsell-through, adjectivesoft sell, nounspiff, nounsplit run, nounspot colour, nounSRDS, stage-gate, adjectiveStandard Rate and Data Service, nounstealth marketing, target buyer, target customer, Target Group Index, nountarget market, telemarketing, nountelephone interviewing, nountradename, noununique visitor, noununit sales, want ad, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=help to achieve an aim)· He did much to advance the cause of freedom.
(=make people want to work together)· The programme will promote cooperation between universities and industry.
(=make it more likely to exist)· Creating a pond in your garden encourages wildlife diversity.
(=develop or encourage efficient ways of doing something)· A competitive market helps to promote efficiency.
(=help it to happen)· The Equal Opportunities Commission was established to promote equality between the sexes.
(=tell the public about it)· Our press officer contacted the local radio and TV stations to promote the exhibition.
· Greater government spending may stimulate economic growth.
(=do things that help friendship or peace develop or improve)· We need to develop ways of promoting harmony between nations.
(=behave in a way that creates a particular image)· He presented an image of himself as an energetic young leader.
· He was promoted to the rank of Captain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Indeed, Freemantle not only provided Leapor with a receptive audience for her mature work, but actively promoted it.· The Catholic Church is actively promoting the celebrations as a way to strengthen family and community ties and distract kids from gangs.· The Hanoverian monarchs were great patrons of the arts, and actively promoted the music of both native-born and Continental musicians.· The facility is currently being actively promoted both within the Bar and locally with potential professional clients.· Alvarez' oversights are unfortunate because it's genuinely heartening to see a company actively promoting a bass range.· It may seem odd at first sight that women should actively promote their own exclusion from the trade.
NOUN
· He has to formulate and promote book provision policy in the authority.· If I ever get to promote this book on a late-night show, I will do it.· Hillary Clinton visited Boca Raton Thursday to promote her book at a local bookstore.· In Oxford to promote a new book of photographs he proved that charisma never fades.· Cunningham was in Baltimore recently to promote the book.
· The campaign was promoted by a massive distribution of leaflets in secondary schools, universities and student restaurants.· The use of a campaign book to promote a candidacy is not rare.· But all that could change if a campaign to promote the meat succeeds.· In practice, both parties spend it on expensive media campaigns that promote their presidential nominees.· In the 1890s it embarked on a series of campaigns to promote closer relationships with trade unions.· In practice, both parties use soft money to finance expensive media campaigns that promote their presidential candidates.· We have neither the resources nor the finance to launch a campaign to promote any particular aspect.
· We hope it will help to illuminate the problems the designer faces in trying to promote such changes by introducing new material.· We believe managers are promoting change for the sake of change.· You commit yourself to long-term help as the only way to promote real change.· It might help if the impersonal organization were aligned to promote change.· Many Acts allow governments to promote subsequent changes and new regulations.· Thus the chief problem for corporate change is how to promote task-aligned change across many diverse units....· Ambache: Wants to promote gradual evolutionary change Ambache hopes this sort of attention will not occur at Knowsley.· Is he there to promote change or simply to replace some one going on long leave?
· We will promote the development of multi-party systems through the new Westminster Foundation for Democracy.· In promoting technology development, cities have been able to capitalize on a growing number of state level programs and investments.· There has been little attempt to create projects to promote women's development and even less understanding of the issues involved.
· Religious education in these schools is officially non-denominational or biblically based and loyalist sentiments are promoted.· In promoting my education and neglecting that of my sisters, my parents proved themselves right.· Various funding agencies including Sight Savers are promoting integrated education enabling blind and sighted children to accept and adjust to each other.· The first is to promote liberal arts higher education, both at general degree and sub-degree levels.
· Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch, in efforts to promote their own debit cards.· We continue to give support to the United Nations Secretary-General's efforts to promote a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement.· Similar efforts are needed to promote the appropriate use of antimicrobial drugs and infection control procedures in nursing homes.· At the same time, considerable effort has gone into promoting the economic development of the city's disadvantaged areas.· Finally, what lessons might be learned from experience with efforts to promote local economic development?
· Functionalism in public law views this apparatus of government as serving to promote a distinct set of purposes.· Most entrepreneurial governments promote competition between service providers.· To peacefully persuade zoos and national and local governments to accept and promote our aims.· The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.· The government spent lavishly to promote the process and promised a change for the better.· Many Acts allow governments to promote subsequent changes and new regulations.· The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture as important contributions to workforce flexibility, and the restructuring process.· One of the promises is that the Government will promote enterprise and training.
· We particularly need people in their late teens - early twenties age group - to promote our young, slim image!· Individual and group exercise programmes promote mobility and confidence, helping to diffuse anxiety and aggression.· It not only builds trust among constituent groups, but also promotes accountability within the ranks.· Simultaneously, tax credits can target state support to approved groups, and promote socially desirable economic behaviour.· Only with assurances that the navy approved, he told Stark, would his group promote the destroyer deal.
· F Fertiliser substrate Compound mixed with gravel to promote plant growth.· What is it that happens in those years before kindergarten that specifically inhibits or promotes growth to self-sufficiency?· When you start a new church, if you begin informatively you promote healthy natural growth among these people.· Reading, which in other settings has promoted the intellectual growth of a people, now threatens to arrest it.· It's natural, promotes your child's growth and helps to protect against allergy and infection.· An added benefit is that rabbits are commonly raised without the use of hormones or steroids to promote growth.· The goal of the World Bank is clear enough: to promote growth in poor countries.· This will promote growth in the buds below your pinch.
· Exercise is using your body in a way that will promote health.· That group is helping to forge stronger links between mainstream and complementary approaches to promoting health and managing illness.· Strategies to promote the nation's health should acknowledge the importance of material and social deprivation more explicitly.· To promote its various health care products, Blue Cross estimates that it sponsors about 100 seminars a week.· Research shows that smiling increases the levels of hormones which promote good health.· Kungfu was primarily developed as a method of self-defence and as an exercise to promote good health.· Mediascope, a nonprofit organization that promotes social and health issues, published a nationwide study of media violence.
· Yet to promote this idea, she puts forward some very strange arguments.· In both cases the White House is promoting the idea that the missile defence row is all over bar the shouting.· There were those who promoted the idea much earlier, but they had a limited following.· Cope promoted the idea on the air constantly and expected a big reaction the first game.· One enterprising airway promotes this idea by showing an in-flight video that leads passengers through such a work-out.· The activities singled out were to do with the use of ratepayers' money to promote certain ideas.· By their work they are promoting the idea that goods should be of merchantable quality and fit for their purpose.· It promotes the idea that advancement is by acceptance rather than enterprise or originality.
· Water & Ventilation Keith Morgan has been promoted to sales manager north for the water treatment section of the division.· Case promoted himself from manager to owner in 1927, buying the hotel for less than $ 150, 000.· And last, but by no means least,, previously at, Louth, was promoted to maltings manager in January.· A senior manager read one of the articles and promptly promoted the marketing manager to a position as his assistant.· Following the restructuring of the Chambers Harrap sales force, Elaine Walker has been promoted to key accounts manager.· Deb Mayers has been promoted to office manager.· Ed Shedd has been promoted to sales manager at Constable.· Mike Hennes, project engineer, recently was promoted to substation engineering manager at Minnkota.
· Mainstream industrial organization argues that the purpose of the policy is to promote economic efficiency.· Moreover, the Countryside Commission's own favoured policy is to promote landscape agreements and tree-planting schemes in cooperation with sympathetic farmers and landowners.· His arguments for revitalizing the colonies were realized in more active policies promoting colonial change.· Mr. Howarth Our policy is to promote wider participation and more opportunity in higher education.· Our food safety policy promotes consumer choice and consumer safety.· Regional policies designed to promote employment sought to maintain population levels in the less prosperous areas by curbing voluntary out-migration.
· The major companies operating in these markets spend huge sums on marketing in order to promote their products globally.· Some obesity researchers have clear conflict of interest, promoting or investing in products or programs based on their research.· Yet, according to much of the advertising used to promote and sell these products, that's exactly what should happen.· The analogy of the sales pitch is revealing, for advertisers do not promote their product merely by providing information about it.· He was not a chemist but adopted innovatory methods and used commercial skill to promote his products.· Reard was just better at promoting his product.· One reason for Ward's success is the way he has promoted his products.· The investigation centers around promotional gimmicks used by food manufacturers to promote particular products in grocery stores.
· The company has played a leading role year in promoting tax and electric rate relief for Massachusetts businesses.· Ferguson had been seeking an ambassadorial role promoting the club abroad.· Regional and transfrontier co-operation has a definite role in promoting good-neighbourly relations.· Second, few of the evaluations discuss the donors' own role in promoting some of the weaknesses in project design.· His role will be to promote among local businesses the resources and facilities of the dealership.· The New Right also deny the role of welfare in promoting social integration.
· How did the individuals behind these businesses manage to promote their services so effectively?· Most entrepreneurial governments promote competition between service providers.· The draw was designed to promote Keyline's Bricksearch service, which ensures customers select the right brick for the right specification.· The critics contend that competition could promote better and cheaper service.· Roy Holloway is promoted from supervisor to service manager at Hygiene Bristol.· In 1989, he was promoted to project engineer, and, in 1995, he was promoted to technical services engineer.· Banks promoted such services by press and television advertising.· Booksellers increasingly have to promote their consolidated services to publishers.
· He made his own cameras and lenses, including a panoramic camera, and promoted the use of photography in geology.· AirTouch is selling the phones for $ 599 each -- too steep a price to promote widespread use.· To promote effective use of libraries as a whole school resource for study and recreation. 2.· The Committee has promoted and encouraged the use of sound practice procedures.· Similar efforts are needed to promote the appropriate use of antimicrobial drugs and infection control procedures in nursing homes.· It promoted the use of marijuana, they said, although it started with an anti-drugs message.· We are keen to promote the use of such integrated assessment.
· Green taxes are a double dividend option: they could cut environmental damage whilst promoting welfare.· The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.· The 1980 Child Care Act placed the duty of promoting the welfare of children as the first responsibility of social service departments.· Thus they are not to ask how their decisions can best promote the general welfare.
VERB
· The visit was aimed at promoting increased investment and trade between the two countries.· These disciplines aim to promote a more open, sensitive, untroubled contact with both the internal and external worlds.· This may reduce the flexibility which decentralisation aims to promote.· It also aims to promote prompt payment of taxes.· The show aims to promote modelling in the region and inform people what local clubs are available.· The tour was aimed at promoting economic co-operation and trade links.
· The draw was designed to promote Keyline's Bricksearch service, which ensures customers select the right brick for the right specification.· There are a lot of stretching moves designed to promote a lean look.· Sportsbridge, a new nonprofit organization designed to promote athleticism for women, had brought the pair together.· If the state acts in a manner not designed to promote social solidarity then, Duguit argued, this must be resisted.· Also present within organization are power strategies designed solely to promote selfish objectives.· Incentive systems should be designed to promote and strengthen the social purposes and values of the organisation.· The agreement was designed to promote competition among larger retailers.
· As well as Silicon and Collagen, it contains a special patented ingredient to help promote the body's own cellular regenerating activity.· This was to help promote the name of the small private college located on the outskirts of the city.· A stance that helped the poor and promoted growth, it said, counted for nothing without a strong anti-corruption strategy.· Working closely with Merseyside Conference Bureau, Lauren has helped to promote the area as a main conference venue.· Hershey helped to promote E. with posters, shirts and sticker sets.· Sometimes specific projects have helped to promote integration.· Third, involvement with local industry helps to promote a stimulating and challenging curriculum. 4.
· Ferguson had been seeking an ambassadorial role promoting the club abroad.· We will also seek to promote forms of accountability which go beyond dinner parties at Stormont for selected priests and other notables.· Similarly, the classes-in-struggle contest control of the state and its apparatus, thereby seeking to promote their own interests.· In seeking to promote the realization and wholeness of human nature, we attempt to correct our early unsatisfactory experiences.
· We hope it will help to illuminate the problems the designer faces in trying to promote such changes by introducing new material.· The wedding would be a symbol of the reconciliation Jim was trying to promote.· Councillors agreed to try to promote the outstations for 12 months to see if the public make more use of them.· Suppose it has tried to promote a special line of soft toys by selling them next to infants' clothes.· The only problem was that we were not trying to promote it.· An uphill battle trying to promote the latest trucks.· It has always been Whitbread's aim to try and promote from within.· The Burrs' is just the sort of tourist venture that Thamesdown Council's trying to promote.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounpromotionpromoteradjectivepromotionalverbpromote
1encourage to help something to develop or increase:  a meeting to promote trade between Taiwan and the UK Fertilizer promotes leaf growth.2better job to give someone a better more responsible job in a company OPP  demotepromote somebody to something Helen was promoted to senior manager.GRAMMAR Promote is often passive in this meaning.3sell to help sell a new product, film etc by offering it at a reduced price or by advertising it:  She’s in London to promote her new book.4sport British English if a sports team is promoted, they play in a better group of teams the next year OPP  relegatebe promoted to something They have been promoted to the First Division.GRAMMAR Promote is usually passive in this meaning.5persuade to try to persuade people to support or use something:  John Major promoted the idea of a classless society.6arrange to be responsible for arranging a large public event such as a concert or a sports game
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