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pro·mot·er

(prə-mō′tər)

1. One that promotes, especially an active supporter or advocate.

2. A financial and publicity organizer, as of a boxing match or an artistic performance.

3. Genetics The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase.

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promoter

(prəˈməʊtə)

1. a person or thing that promotes

2. a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking

3. (General Sporting Terms) a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match

4. (Chemistry) chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity

5. (Genetics) genetics a sequence of nucleotides, associated with a structural gene, that must bind with messenger RNA polymerase before transcription can proceed

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pro•mot•er

(prəˈmoʊ tər)

n.

1. one that promotes, furthers, or encourages.

2. a person who initiates or takes part in the organizing of a company, development of a project, etc.

3. a person who organizes and finances a sporting event or entertainment.

a. a site on a DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.

b. a gene sequence that activates transcription.

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Noun	1.	promoter - someone who is an active supporter and advocate plugger, booster adman, advertiser, advertizer - someone whose business is advertising barker - someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers
	2.	promoter - a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments impresario, showman booker, booking agent - someone who engages a person or company for performances exhibitioner, exhibitor, shower - someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see organ-grinder - a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy pornographer - someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores

promoter

noun

1. organizer, arranger, entrepreneur, impresario one of the top boxing promoters in Britain

2. supporter, champion, advocate, campaigner, helper, proponent, stalwart, mainstay, upholder Aaron Copland was a most energetic promoter of American music.

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Translations

مُرَوِّج

-kapořadatel

arrangørstøtte

elõmozdítókezdeményezõ

skipuleggjandi

auspice fondatore (socio fondatore)promotore

düzenleyici

促进者推销商

promoter

[prəˈməʊtəʳ] N (gen) → promotor(a) m/f; (= backer) → patrocinador(a) m/f (Boxing) → empresario/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

promoter

[prəˈməʊtə^r] n

[event] → organisateur/trice m/f

[idea, practice] → promoteur/trice m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

promoter

n (Sport, of beauty contest etc) → Promoter m, → Veranstalter m; (of company) → Promoter m; sales promoter → Verkaufsleiter(in) m(f), → Salespromoter(in) m(f) (Comm)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

promoter

[prəˈməʊtəʳ] n (gen) → promotore/trice; (of sporting event) → promoter m inv, organizzatore/trice, fondatore/trice; (of cause) → sostenitore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

promote

(prəˈməut) verb

1. to raise (to a higher rank or position). He was promoted to head teacher.

2. to encourage, organize, or help the progress of. He worked hard to promote peace / this scheme.

3. to encourage the buying of; to advertise. We are promoting a new brand of soap-powder.

proˈmoter noun

proˈmotion (-ʃən) noun

1. the raising of a person to a higher rank or position. He has just been given (a) promotion.

2. encouragement (of a cause, charity etc). the promotion of world peace.

3. the activity of advertising a product etc. He is against the promotion of cigarettes.

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Unable to detect a weak point in this scheme of mutual advantage, the financier gave the promoter in disguise an order for the money, and wrote a note to his wife directing her to count out the girl.

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"Haven't you got anything to say?" the fight promoter snarled.

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"A flattering looking glass is a promoter of amiability," she said.

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And this movement of reconstruction of which Prince Andrew had a vague idea, and Speranski its chief promoter, began to interest him so keenly that the question of the army regulations quickly receded to a secondary place in his consciousness.

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Their president, Barbicane, the promoter of the enterprise, having consulted the astronomers of the Cambridge Observatory upon the subject, took all necessary means to ensure the success of this extraordinary enterprise, which had been declared practicable by the majority of competent judges.

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So, as a promoter of schemes for the public good, Hubbard was by no means a novice.

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I was second to none of the company in any acts of debauchery; nay, I soon distinguished myself so notably in all riots and disorders, that my name generally stood first in the roll of delinquents; and instead of being lamented as the unfortunate pupil of Sir George, I was now accused as the person who had misled and debauched that hopeful young gentleman; for though he was the ringleader and promoter of all the mischief, he was never so considered.

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The little old gentleman was the active spirit of the place, the adjuster of all differences, the promoter of all merry-makings, the dispenser of his friend's bounty, and of no small charity of his own besides; the universal mediator, comforter, and friend.

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The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association.

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"The revolt is at the door of those who think my people can rebel," cried Anne, unable to dissimulate before the coadjutor, whom she looked upon, and probably with reason, as the promoter of the tumult.

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'Pray dispense with this jesting, for I have no time, and really no inclination, to be the subject or promoter of mirth just now.'

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One of the roving promoters that used to stop at Mrs.

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