say it: pruh-MOH-shuhn
promotion is a noun meaning "a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
“the packaging of new ideas”
act of raising in rank or position
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
the advancement of some enterprise
“his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for promotion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.