promoter
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promoters
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a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
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a person who initiates or takes part in the organizing of a company, development of a project, etc.
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a person who organizes and provides financial backing for a sporting event or entertainment.
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Chemistry. any substance that in small amounts is capable of increasing the activity of a catalyst.
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Also called collector. Metallurgy. a water-repellent reagent enhancing the ability of certain ores to float so that they can be extracted by the flotation process.
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Genetics.
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a site on a DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.
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a gene sequence that activates transcription.
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Obsolete. an informer.
noun
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a person or thing that promotes
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a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking
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a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match
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chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity
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genetics a sequence of nucleotides, associated with a structural gene, that must bind with messenger RNA polymerase before transcription can proceed
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Etymology
Origin of promoter
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; promote + -er 1; replacing earlier promotour, from Anglo-French
Explanation
If you’ve been trying to get anyone and everyone to go see your friend’s band perform, then you could call yourself a promoter of that band. A promoter is a supporter, advocate, or booster for a person, group, or event. A promoter is an active supporter of something. A promoter of democracy, for example, is someone who tries to spread democracy throughout the world. Being a promoter is also a profession; one might be hired to make arrangements and generate publicity for some form of public entertainment, like a boxing match or a concert. Perhaps if you tell enough people about your friend's band, the band will hire you as its official promoter.
Vocabulary lists containing promoter
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Jordan Firstman’s sincere, funny and genuinely moving debut feature has him playing a queer New York underground party promoter blindsided by the arrival of the 10-year-old son previously unknown to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Several marvelous larger-than-life photographs of her—O’Keeffe’s fame has always been amplified by images of her striking appearance, many taken by her husband and foremost promoter, Alfred Stieglitz—add panache.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The central role of the promoter — and the lack of genuine athletic competition in matches — puts wrestlers and management on remarkably unequal footing.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Speaking to BBC Sport after the fight was announced, Fury's promoter Frank Warren repeatedly returned to one word: compromise.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Washington visit launched Lawrence into the role of the hydrogen bomb’s most prominent and credible promoter.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
IHH says it isn’t subject to financial claims in the dispute involving Daiichi Sankyo and former Fortis promoters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sheeran said the decision to drop Macklemore was made by his promoters, not him.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But for all that, the celebrity endorsements worked … at least for the currency promoters, and in many cases for the celebrities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
By June 1, he said, every single one of his club’s Instagram pages had been suspended, along with around a dozen pages from his staff and affiliated club promoters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
On warm summer evenings, entire families rode the open-air trolley out to the Lakewood amusement park, dubbed the “Coney Island of the South” by promoters.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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