Definition of Promote

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Promote

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.

To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.

To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

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Promote Quotations

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will Rogers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Joyce Brothers

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
Wangari Maathai

Promote Translations

promote in Afrikaans is bevorder
promote in Dutch is promoveren, bevorderen
promote in French is alimenter, promouvoir, promouvez
promote in Italian is promuovere
promote in Latin is producto produxi productum, antepono, proveho
promote in Portuguese is promova
promote in Spanish is promover

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