Betekenis van promote In het Nederlands

• 0 to encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something:

  • Advertising companies are always having to think up new ways to promote products.

  • The Institute is intended to promote an understanding of the politics and culture of the Arab world.

  • Greenpeace works to promote awareness of the dangers that threaten our planet today.

  • It has long been known that regular exercise promotes all-round good health.

• 1 to raise someone to a higher or more important position or rank:

  • If I'm not promoted within the next two years, I'm going to change jobs.

  • She's just been promoted to senior sales rep.

  • If Coventry City win this match, they'll be promoted to the Premier League.

• 2 to advertise something in order to sell it:

  • The new model cars are being heavily promoted on television.

• 3 to encourage or support something, or to help something become successful:

  • A new campaign has been launched to promote safe driving.

• 4 to advance someone to a more important rank or position:

  • She was promoted to division manager last year.

• 5 to encourage people to buy or want something, through advertising, offers of lower prices, special events, etc.:

  • Marks was there promoting his new book.

  • The vaccine is being heavily promoted by its maker.

  • The guide has been designed to promote sales of their financial products.

• 6 to encourage the existence or development of something:

  • promote growth/business/development

  • promote efficiency/innovation

  • promote trade/competition

  • promote democracy/diversity

• 7 to give someone a higher or more important job or rank:

  • Before being promoted, she worked as a senior manager for 15 years.

  • promote sb to sth In August, he was promoted to the homicide division.

• 8 to start listing (= giving the price of) a company's shares on a more important stock index (= system that shows changes of the average prices of shares on a particular stock market):

  • promote sth to sth All eight companies are to be promoted to the FTSE 100 index.