Usually means: Encourage or support something's growth.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word promote:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. promote: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. promote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. promote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. promote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. promote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Promote, promote: Wordnik
  7. promote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. promote: Wiktionary
  9. promote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. promote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. promote: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. promote: Dictionary.com
  13. promote: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. promote: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Promote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Promote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. promote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. promote: Rhymezone
  19. promote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. promote: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. promote: Free Dictionary
  22. promote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. promote: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. promote: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. promote: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promote: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promote: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promote: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. promote: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. promote: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Promote: Sports Definitions

(Note: See promotability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
verb:  (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
verb:  (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
verb:  (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to a higher league.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
verb:  (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
verb:  (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

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