promoter
pronunciation
How to pronounce promoter in British English:
UK [prəˈməʊtə(r)]
How to pronounce promoter in American English:
US [prəˈmoʊtə(r)]
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- Noun:
- someone who is an active supporter and advocate
- a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
Word Origin
- 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.
Example
- 1. An alternative , overlapping , way to capture the problem is to examine " promoter groups " - federations controlled by clans or individuals .
- 2. Long-time malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad was , as a young man , a promoter of malay .
- 3. The internet , one scholar was quoted as saying , is a " great promoter of social change " .
- 4. The cells with the normal promoter shut down for about 20 minutes every 200 minutes , whereas the cells with the viral promoter remained active for a 10-hour stretch .
- 5. Dr. thrun is known as a passionate promoter of the potential to use robotic vehicles to make highways safer and lower the nation 's energy costs .