Collocations for "promote"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "promote" in context.
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promote
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- [an employee, a worker, a colleague] was promoted
- promoted from [assistant, manager]
- promoted to [manager, CEO]
- promoted or [transferred, advertised, relegated, demoted]
- promoted at work
- promotes (good) health (and wellbeing)
- promotes a [positive, healthy, better]
- tends to promote violence
- promote the [development, interests, growth, health] of
- promote economic [growth, development] (in)
- has promoted an [increase, decrease] in
- promote [awareness, understanding, acceptance, openness]
- promote [a band, a singer, the product, your business]
- promote [the event, a concert, his movie]
- promote sales of
- promote the interests of
- promote [online, on TV]
- promote and [support, develop, facilitate, encourage]
- promote your [country, community]
- promoted as [being, having, providing]
- sports: the team was promoted [to the Premier League, from the Championship]
'promote' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
advancement
- apartment
- awareness
- benefit
- brand
- campaign
- celebrity
- charter
- economic
- encourage
- equality
- establish
- form
- forthcoming
- foster
- found
- franchise
- friendship
- function
- guest
- handset
- initiative
- intend
- introduce
- invent
- launch
- loss
- mandate
- merchandise
- mission
- movement
- namely
- national
- opportunity
- organization
- outdoor
- partnership
- poster
- public
- publicity
- push
- represent
- reward
- right
- sharing
- site
- social
- swimming
- technology
- trade