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🌱 To support growth 📢 To advertise ⬆️ To give a higher position ♟️ To upgrade a piece
to promote

to promote

1 5.7
Turn a pawn that reaches the other side into a stronger piece
  • verb
  • /prəˈmoʊt/
  • Jargon
translation icon : coronar
  • I was also embarrassed for CCP that they're not promoting this thing more, but I made that point this morning, and hopefully the promotion will step up as things go along.

Examples

  • The agency (EPA) recruited, guided, and financed activist groups that promoted its rulemaking.

    Blog text (14)

  • And the white pawn wearing the second lieutenant's gold bar would be promoted to knight.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Then Black Pawn takes her, promotes to Queen, and that's checkmate.

    Wicked Blood (2014)

  • So the Dude shoots the bankroll and promotes Queenie into a nightclub star.

    Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

  • If all goes as planned, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated "Syrian National Council" -- an umbrella organization with extensive links to the Bilderberg group and the world government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations -- is expected to take over from the current despot.

    Blog text (32)

  • When the pawn reached the opposite end of the board, he was able to promote it to a queen.

  • The player decided to promote the pawn to a knight after successfully advancing it across the board.

  • In the final move, she chose to promote her pawn into a rook, securing her victory.

Synonyms

to king
vsto promote
  • Jargon
3 7.4

To make a checkers piece able to move both forward and backward by moving it to the far side

is broader and covers any change into a stronger piece at the board edge
to queen
vsto promote
  • Jargon
1 8.5

To make a pawn into the most powerful chess piece when it reaches the far side

applies to chess and checkers covering any piece change at the far end

Phrasal Verbs

to spot promote
  • US
8.1

To give someone a higher job immediately without following normal steps

Surface Forms

promote infinitive
promoted past
promoted past participle
promoting present participle
promotes third person singular

Morphology

promote = pro + mot

The elements are Latin combining forms (pro- + mot-) rather than productive modern English morphemes, so knowing 'pro' does not let a learner derive the meaning of 'promote'.

Etymology

Promote comes from pro- ('forward') and movere ('to move'), so in chess to promote a pawn is to move it all the way forward and change it into a more powerful piece.