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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

Promotion

See also: promotion

German

Noun

Promotion f (genitive Promotion, plural Promotionen)

  1. granting of a doctorate, Ph.D.

promotion

promotion

See also: Promotion

English

Noun

promotion (plural promotions)

  1. An advancement in rank or position.
    I'll have to give myself a promotion!
  2. (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.
  3. (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 []

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French

Etymology

From Latin promotio

Pronunciation

Noun

promotion f (plural promotions)

  1. promotion