promoter
[pruh-moh-ter]
- a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
- a person who initiates or takes part in the organizing of a company, development of a project, etc.
- a person who organizes and provides financial backing for a sporting event or entertainment.
- Chemistry. any substance that in small amounts is capable of increasing the activity of a catalyst.
- 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.
- Genetics.
- a site on a DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.
- a gene sequence that activates transcription.
- Obsolete. an informer.
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Origin of promoter
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Examples from the Web for promoter
Contemporary Examples
Eventually though, Wiles was suspended for "conduct unbecoming to a Promoter of the Miss Gay America pageant system."
In 2014, Facebook has become an avatar, promoter, and beneficiary of the social media-related bubble.
Better yet, added StubHub spokesman Glenn Lehrman in an interview with The Daily Beast, blame the venue, the promoter, the artist.
Onstage, he wears a white T-shirt and pair of baggy jeans (“I wear so much G-Star, I should be the promoter”).
Did I mention that Mr. Kristol was once a promoter of Alan Keyes?
Historical Examples
He was many other things, but, to be brief, he was a promoter.
A Woman TenderfootGrace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
I suppose nobody, certainly not its promoter, is enamoured of this.
Another SheafJohn Galsworthy
"He was a promoter, just as Jeffrey was," she insisted, with her pretty sulkiness.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
"Take all the time you want," replied the promoter, cheerfully.
A Woman for MayorHelen M. Winslow
You are a very young man to be the promoter of a project of such magnitude.
Frank Merriwell's PursuitBurt L. Standish
promoter
- a person or thing that promotes
- a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking
- a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match
- chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity
- 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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Word Origin and History for promoter
n.
late 14c., "one who promotes" (the interest of someone), "supporter," agent noun from promote, and also from Old French promoteur and directly from Medieval Latin promotor. Specific financial sense of "one who leads in forming a company" is from 1876; sense of "one who organizes sporting or entertainment events" is attested from 1936.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
promoter
(prə-mō′tər)- A substance that increases the activity of a catalyst.
- A DNA molecule to which RNA polymerase binds, initiating the transcription of mRNA.
- A chemical that may promote carcinogenicity or mutagenicity.
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promoter
[prə-mō′tər]
- The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase.
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