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verb

Promote v. t. (past & past part. promoted; pres. part. promoting)

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."

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." "Exalt her, and she shall promote thee."

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

Promote v. i. To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Promote" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the production or cessation of rain we see that religion, represented by the invocation of the ghosts, goes hand in hand with magic, represented by the hocus-pocus with the stone. Again, certain celebrated ghosts are invoked to promote the growth of taro and yams. Thus to ensure a good crop of taro, the suppliant will hold a bud of taro in his hand and pray, "O Mrs. Zewanong, may my taro leaves unfold till they are as broad as the petticoat ...

— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer

... runs a band, A double band of hard and gleaming steel; It binds in one this fertile, mighty land, In bonds which all should recognize and feel, If anxious to promote their country's weal. A bond which Nature's sympathetic law Should fasten on our hearts with solid seal, Which factious feuds should ne'er asunder draw, Nor wily traitors cut, ...

— Canada and Other Poems • T.F. Young

... do severally the best they can, according to their own lights, in estimating what goods or services the population wants, and in satisfying these wants with such increasing economy that new goods and services might be continually added to the old. They might be left free to promote or dismiss subordinates, to fill up vacancies, and take new men into partnership, very much as the heads of private firms do now. Or else they might be liable, in greater or less degree, to removal or supersession, and interference with their technical operations, on the part of the ...

— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock

... one of pessimism. The Treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated Central Empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new States of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves; no arrangement was reached at Paris for restoring the disordered finances of France and Italy, or to adjust the systems of the Old World and ...

— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes

... Government is to suppress wickedness and promote righteousness, and thus prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom ...

— Sketches of the Covenanters • J. C. McFeeters

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