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Inflections of 'promote ' (v ): (⇒ conjugate )promotes v 3rd person singular promoting v pres p promoted v past promoted v past p
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Principal Translations
promote [sth] ⇒ vtr (advertise) promocionar⇒ vtr
Radio commercials promote various products.
Los anuncios de radio promocionan varios productos.
promote [sth] vtr (foster, encourage) promover⇒ vtr
fomentar⇒ vtr
Officials try to promote the use of seat belts.
Los funcionarios tratan de promover el uso de los cinturones de seguridad.
promote [sb] ⇒ vtr (employee: give higher position) promover⇒ vtr
ascender⇒ vtr
Note : Ante complemento directo de persona debe usarse la preposición «a». The director wants to promote me to management.
El director quiere promoverme a la gerencia.
Additional Translations
promote [sb/sth] ⇒ vtr (support) (apoyar ) promover⇒ vtr
apoyar⇒ vtr
Our party tries to promote the candidate.
Nuestro partido intenta promover al candidato.
promote [sb] ⇒ vtr US (move up to the next school grade) promover⇒ vtr
The fourth grade students were promoted to the fifth grade.
Los estudiantes de cuarto grado fueron promovidos al quinto grado.
promote [sb/sth] ⇒ vtr (sports team) apoyar⇒ vtr
(MX ) echar porras loc verb
animar⇒ vtr
The fans promote the team enthusiastically.
Las fanáticos apoyan al equipo con entusiasmo.
promote [sth] ⇒ vtr (chess) (ajedrez ) transformarse⇒ v prnl
convertirse⇒ v prnl
The pawn was promoted to queen.
El peón se transformó en reina.
promote [sb] over [sb] ⇒ vtr (promote [sb] else instead) ascender a vtr + prep
He was really sad after finding out that his boss had promoted John over him.
Él estaba muy triste después de descubrir que su jefe ascendió a John en su lugar.
'promote ' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
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