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Promotion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Promotion has 4 senses
- promotion(n = noun.communication) packaging, promotional material, publicity - a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas" is a part of marketing
- promotion(n = noun.act) Array - act of raising in rank or position; Array has particulars: ennoblement, preferment, investiture, investment
- promotion(n = noun.communication) advancement, furtherance - encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something; Array is a kind of encouragement
- promotion(n = noun.act) forwarding, furtherance - the advancement of some enterprise; "his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career" is a kind of advancement, progress
is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
has particulars: buildup, pr, public relations, blurb, endorsement, indorsement, ballyhoo, hoopla, hype, plug, pitch, sales pitch, sales talk, ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing, sales promotion
Derived form verb promote3
is a kind of change
Antonym: demotion
Derived form verb promote2
Derived form verb promote1
Derived form verb promote1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Promotion, n. [L. promotio: cf. F. promotion.].
The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south."
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THESAURUS
Promotion
Great Leap Forward, abetting, acknowledgment, advance, advancement, advancing, advertisement, advertising, advocacy, advocating, affiche, aiding, amelioration, amendment, appreciation, ascent, assisting, backing, ballyhoo, bettering, betterment, bill, billboard, blurb, boost, boosting, broadside, brochure, bruiting, buildup, career, championing, circular, commendation, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, course, cultivation, developing, development, direct-mail selling, drumbeating, elevation, encouragement, enhancement, enrichment, espousal, eugenics, euthenics, exaltation, expediting, expedition, facilitation, fanfare, flack, flier, flyer, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fostering, furtherance, furthering, go-ahead, good word, hand-out, handbill, hard sell, hawking, headway, helping, helping along, high-pressure salesmanship, hoarding, honorable mention, huckstering, hype, improvement, improving, inspiration, inspiriting, jobbing, leaflet, lift, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, march, market research, marketing, marketing research, melioration, mend, mending, merchandising, nurturing, ongoing, onward course, passage, peddling, pickup, placard, plug, plugging, poster, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, presentation, press-agentry, progress, progression, progressiveness, promoting, propaganda, public relations, publicity, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, recognition, recommendation, recovery, restoration, retailing, revival, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, sanction, sanctioning, selling, sellout, soft sell, space, special treatment, speeding, stimulating, stimulation, strengthening, support, travel, upbeat, upgrade, upgrading, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, way, wholesalingROGET THESAURUS
Promotion
Improvement
N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.Aid
N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.
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