promotive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   tending to advance, encourage, or contribute to the development of something

   The policy was intended to be promotive of public health rather than merely punitive.

From promote + -ive. Promote comes from Latin promovere, 'to move forward,' formed from pro-, 'forward,' and movere, 'to move.' Promotive literally describes what moves a cause or result forward.

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