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Webster 1913 Edition
promotion
pro-mo′tion
(prō̍-mō′shŭn)
, Noun.
[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.
Promotion
cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.
Webster 1828 Edition
Promotion
PROMO'TION
, n.1.
The act of promoting; advancement; encouragement; as the promotion of virtue or morals; the promotion of peace or of discord.2.
Exaltation in rank or honor; preferment. My promotion will be thy destruction.
Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps.75.
Definition 2024
Promotion
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English
Noun
promotion (plural promotions)
- An advancement in rank or position.
- I'll have to give myself a promotion!
- (marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.
- The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties.
- (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
- 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology (ISBN 079233471X), page 63:
- By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
- 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology (ISBN 1402062427), volume 4, page 3326:
- In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
- 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology (ISBN 079233471X), page 63:
Derived terms
Translations
advancement in position
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dissemination of information
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