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.
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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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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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LA Jazz Festival was a major project for Ludlow, a former Los Angeles City Council member turned music promoter and community activist after pleading guilty to misappropriating funds in 2006.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The cost of event cancellation insurance is usually a percentage of the artists’ “guarantees”—the amount a show’s promoter promises to pay regardless of how many people show up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Boxing once saved him and he needed boxing to get through this. That camp allowed him to focus his mind while he was in so much grief and pain," promoter Eddie Hearn said.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The promoter behind some of the biggest comic and entertainment conventions in the UK has banned Meta glasses from its events to stop "secret filming" of guests and attendees.
From BBC ● Jul. 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
Lottery promoters probably wouldn’t sell as many tickets advertising a range followed by legal boilerplate instead of a single number.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Of course, promoters of private funds will contend that West’s results aren’t fair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
After more than a decade of posturing and power struggles - a soap opera of warring promoters, shifting managers, fractured television deals and failed negotiations - it has finally come down to this.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
And then I’m also talking to lots of the independent promoters out there that you know I used to work with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
They were the promoters of the bloody carnival that plunged Macondo into delirium for three days and whose only lasting consequence was having given Aureliano Segundo the opportunity to meet Fernanda del Carpio.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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