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.
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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
Dietrich was Hollywood’s greatest seductress, with conquests galore, male and female, but she was prouder of helping the war effort during World War II as a performer and war-bonds promoter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Sometimes they took their name with them; other times they molded themselves to whatever gimmick their new promoter needed on the roster.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
During Saturday's US broadcast of the Zuffa Boxing card, it was suggested White was helping Alalshikh on a personal level rather than acting as a promoter.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
One enterprising promoter even offered to pay Smith to hold training tutorials.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
But they didn’t free people from domestic labor or deliver the prosperity and security heralded by their promoters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Gazprom Arena said in August that it had not signed a rental agreement with the concert promoters and so the gig could not take place on its site.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
BBC Newsbeat has approached Marilyn Manson's representatives and gig promoters Live Nation UK for a response.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
In this sense, the written word, along with its avid promoters, the Sophists, represented a frightening challenge to the old order.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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