promote

promote
verb
1 encourage sth
ADVERB
▪ strongly
▪

Human rights are strongly promoted by all our members.

▪ actively, directly
▪ indirectly
▪ effectively, successfully
▪ deliberately, intentionally
▪

They claimed that the authorities had deliberately promoted the violence.

VERB + PROMOTE
▪ aim to, seek to, try to
▪ help (to)
▪

Basketball stars have helped promote the sport overseas.

▪ be designed to
▪

measures designed to promote economic growth

▪ be likely to
▪ serve to
▪

Bonus payments to staff serve to promote commitment to the company.

▪ tend to
PREPOSITION
▪ through
▪

Young people's awareness of the issues is promoted through publicity material.

PHRASES
▪ a campaign to promote sth, a scheme to promote sth (BrE)
▪ be aimed at promoting sth
▪ be widely promoted
▪ efforts to promote sth, measures to promote sth
2 advertise sth
ADVERB
▪ aggressively, heavily, vigorously
▪

The new products have been very heavily promoted.

▪ widely
PREPOSITION
▪ as
▪

The country is now being promoted as a travel destination.

▪ through
▪

The company's products have been promoted mainly through advertising in newspapers.

Promote is used with these nouns as the object: ↑artist, ↑awareness, ↑benefit, ↑cause, ↑circulation, ↑competence, ↑competition, ↑confidence, ↑consumption, ↑cooperation, ↑creativity, ↑debate, ↑democracy, ↑development, ↑diversity, ↑education, ↑efficiency, ↑emergence, ↑engagement, ↑enterprise, ↑equality, ↑excellence, ↑expansion, ↑export, ↑film, ↑freedom, ↑friendship, ↑growth, ↑harmony, ↑health, ↑idea, ↑ideal, ↑ideology, ↑image, ↑importance, ↑improvement, ↑independence, ↑initiative, ↑innovation, ↑integration, ↑interest, ↑intimacy, ↑investment, ↑justice, ↑learning, ↑lifestyle, ↑literacy, ↑movement, ↑movie, ↑myth, ↑objective, ↑participation, ↑partnership, ↑peace, ↑policy, ↑practice, ↑product, ↑production, ↑reconciliation, ↑recovery, ↑reform, ↑relaxation, ↑religion, ↑research, ↑resilience, ↑right, ↑site, ↑sleep, ↑solidarity, ↑spirit, ↑sport, ↑spread, ↑stability, ↑teaching, ↑teamwork, ↑thinking, ↑tolerance, ↑tourism, ↑trade, ↑understanding, ↑unity, ↑use, ↑value, ↑view, ↑violence, ↑virtue, ↑vision, ↑wares, ↑welfare, ↑well-being

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