promoter

C1 Topic:Business & Commerce

US /prəˈmoʊ.tɚ/ UK /prəˈməʊ.tə/ See IPA manual

Freq #20720

Meanings

1

noun
a person or organization that actively supports or encourages a cause, activity, or development

She became a prominent promoter of public libraries and adult education.
2

noun
a person or company that organizes, publicizes, and often finances an entertainment or sporting event

The concert promoter booked the arena and coordinated ticket sales.
3

noun
business and law: a person who undertakes to form and finance a company or commercial venture

The promoter secured the initial investors before the company was incorporated.
4

noun
genetics: a region of DNA where proteins bind to initiate transcription of a gene

The mutation in the promoter sharply reduced expression of the gene.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person or organization... advocate champion supporter booster

2 noun · a person or company that... organizer impresarioshowman

3 noun · business and law: a person... company organizerventure organizer

4 noun · genetics: a region of dna... promoter sequenceregulatory sequence

Opposites

opponent detractor

Word family

Forms promoters

Derived forms copromoterpromoterless

Related forms promote promotion advocacy transcriptionRNA polymerase

Common collocations

enthusiastic promoter Adjective + noun

Etymology

Formed from promote + the agent suffix -er. Promote came from Latin promovere, 'move forward or advance,' from pro-, 'forward,' + movere, 'move.' The molecular-biology sense preserves the idea of advancing a process: a promoter enables transcription to begin.

Topics

Business & Commerce

External links

# promoter

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /prəˈmoʊ.tɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /prəˈməʊ.tə/
**Frequency rank:** 20720

## Meanings
1. a person or organization that actively supports or encourages a cause, activity, or development
2. a person or company that organizes, publicizes, and often finances an entertainment or sporting event
3. business and law: a person who undertakes to form and finance a company or commercial venture
4. genetics: a region of DNA where proteins bind to initiate transcription of a gene

## Examples
- She became a prominent promoter of public libraries and adult education.
- The concert promoter booked the arena and coordinated ticket sales.
- The promoter secured the initial investors before the company was incorporated.
- The mutation in the promoter sharply reduced expression of the gene.

## Synonyms
- advocate
- champion
- supporter
- organizer
- impresario
- company organizer

## Antonyms
- opponent
- detractor

## Derived Forms
- copromoter
- promoterless

## Related Forms
- promote
- promotion
- advocacy
- transcription
- RNA polymerase

## Etymology
Formed from promote + the agent suffix -er. Promote came from Latin promovere, 'move forward or advance,' from pro-, 'forward,' + movere, 'move.' The molecular-biology sense preserves the idea of advancing a process: a promoter enables transcription to begin.

## Topics
- Business & Commerce

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