promotion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An advancement in rank or position.

   I'll have to give myself a promotion!

2. 2
   noun

   Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.

   the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools

3. 3
   noun

   An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.

   The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties.

4. 4
   noun

   Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   act of raising in rank or position

6. 6
   noun

   the advancement of some enterprise

7. 7
   noun

   a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution

8. 8
   noun

   encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin prōmotiō, from Latin prōmoveō (“to move forward”). Equivalent to promote + -ion.