Advertise vs. Promote — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Advertise and Promote
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Advertise
Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance
A billboard advertising beer
Promote
To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
Advertise
To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales.
Promote
To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
Advertise
To make known; call attention to
Advertised my intention to resign.
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Promote
To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.
Advertise
To warn or notify
"This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death" (Henry David Thoreau).
Promote
To urge the adoption of; advocate
Promote a constitutional amendment.
Advertise
To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
Promote
To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity
Commercials promoting a new product.
Advertise
To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper
Advertise for an apartment.
Promote
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing
Promote a Broadway show.
Advertise
(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
Promote
(transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
He promoted his clerk to office manager.
Advertise
(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.
Promote
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
Advertise
(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows.
Promote
(transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
Advertise
To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
Promote
To elevate to a higher league.
At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
Advertise
(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
Promote
To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
Advertise
To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; - often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
I will advertise thee what this people shall do.
Promote
To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
Advertise
To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
Promote
To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
Advertise
Call attention to;
Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS
Promote
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.
Advertise
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);
The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
Promote
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.
I will promote thee unto very great honor.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee.
Promote
To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
Promote
Contribute to the progress or growth of;
I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom
Promote
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;
John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired
Women tend not to advance in the major law firms
I got promoted after many years of hard work
Promote
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);
The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops
Promote
Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
Promote
Change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent
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