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PROMOTION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of raising in rank or position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("promotion" is a kind of...):

change (the action of changing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "promotion"):

ennoblement (the act of raising someone to the nobility)

preferment (the act of preferring)

investiture; investment (the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank)

Antonym:

demotion (act of lowering in rank or position)

Derivation:

promote (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The advancement of some enterprise

Example:

his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career

Synonyms:

forwarding; furtherance; promotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("promotion" is a kind of...):

advancement; progress (gradual improvement or growth or development)

Derivation:

promote (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

Example:

the packaging of new ideas

Synonyms:

packaging; promo; promotion; promotional material; publicity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("promotion" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "promotion"):

buildup (highly favorable publicity and praise)

PR; public relations (a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution)

blurb; endorsement; indorsement (a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books))

ballyhoo; hoopla; hype; plug (blatant or sensational promotion)

pitch; sales pitch; sales talk (promotion by means of an argument and demonstration)

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)

sales promotion (promotion that supplements or coordinates advertising)

Holonyms ("promotion" is a part of...):

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

Derivation:

promote (make publicity for; try to sell (a product))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

Synonyms:

advancement; furtherance; promotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("promotion" is a kind of...):

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Derivation:

promote (contribute to the progress or growth of)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Chemopreventive agent may work at different stages and may inhibit the initiation, promotion, transformation, and/or progression of the malignant process.

(Chemopreventive Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both the promotion of apoptosis and the activation of nuclear factor-kappa-B signaling.

(B-Cell Lymphoma/Leukemia 10, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes protein LYRIC, plays a role in transcriptional regulation, promotion of tumor cell anchorage-independent growth and metastasis.

(MTDH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes BCL2/adenovirus E1B 19-kDa protein-interacting protein 3-like protein, plays a role in the promotion of apoptosis and may be involved in tumor suppression.

(BNIP3L wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein epsilon, plays a role in transcriptional promotion.

(CEBPE wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the promotion of DNA replication.

(Origin Recognition Complex Subunit 3, NCI Thesaurus)

Dysregulation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is frequently found in solid tumors and results in the promotion of tumor cell growth, survival, and resistance to both chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

(PI3K-beta Inhibitor GSK2636771, NCI Thesaurus)

I have the infinite satisfaction of congratulating you on your brother's promotion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The old captain spoke of the promotions by Parliamentary interest which had put many a youngster into the captain’s cabin when he should have been in the gun-room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And we could hear him adding to himself, “Cap'n, is it? My heart, and here's promotion!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)