promotion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=mo=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

promotion, n. [L. promotio: cf. F. promotion.].

 The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
"Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

promotion

Great Leap Forward, abetting, acknowledgment, advance, advancement, advancing, advertisement, advertising, advocacy, advocating, affiche, aiding, amelioration, amendment, appreciation, ascent, assisting, backing, ballyhoo, bettering, betterment, bill, billboard, blurb, boost, boosting, broadside, brochure, bruiting, buildup, career, championing, circular, commendation, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, course, cultivation, developing, development, direct-mail selling, drumbeating, elevation, encouragement, enhancement, enrichment, espousal, eugenics, euthenics, exaltation, expediting, expedition, facilitation, fanfare, flack, flier, flyer, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fostering, furtherance, furthering, go-ahead, good word, hand-out, handbill, hard sell, hawking, headway, helping, helping along, high-pressure salesmanship, hoarding, honorable mention, huckstering, hype, improvement, improving, inspiration, inspiriting, jobbing, leaflet, lift, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, march, market research, marketing, marketing research, melioration, mend, mending, merchandising, nurturing, ongoing, onward course, passage, peddling, pickup, placard, plug, plugging, poster, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, presentation, press-agentry, progress, progression, progressiveness, promoting, propaganda, public relations, publicity, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, recognition, recommendation, recovery, restoration, retailing, revival, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, sanction, sanctioning, selling, sellout, soft sell, space, special treatment, speeding, stimulating, stimulation, strengthening, support, travel, upbeat, upgrade, upgrading, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, way, wholesaling

ROGET THESAURUS

promotion

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.