promotion

noun

1. 提升；提拔；晋升
   a move to a more important job or rank in a company or an organization
   1. Her promotion to Sales Manager took everyone by surprise.
      竟然提拔她当销售经理，叫每个人都感到意外。
   2. The new job is a promotion for him.
      这一新职务对他是擢升。
   3. a job with excellent promotion prospects
      有充分晋升机会的职务
2. （体育运动队的）晋级，升级
   a move by a sports team from playing in one group of teams to playing in a better group
   1. the team's promotion to the First Division
      这个球队晋升为甲级队
3. 促销活动；广告宣传
   activities done in order to increase the sales of a product or service; a set of advertisements for a particular product or service
   1. Her job is mainly concerned with sales and promotion.
      她的工作主要是销售和广告宣传方面的。
   2. We are doing a special promotion of Chilean wines.
      我们正在进行智利葡萄酒特别促销活动。
4. 推广；促进
   activity that encourages people to believe in the value or importance of sth, or that helps sth to succeed
   1. a society for the promotion of religious tolerance
      一个促进宗教包容的团体

1. N-VAR 晋升；升职；提升；擢升
   If you are given promotion or a promotion in your job, you are given a more important job or rank in the organization that you work for.
   1. Consider changing jobs or trying for promotion.
      考虑换个工作或者争取升职。
   2. ...rewarding outstanding employees with promotions to higher-paid posts.
      将出色的员工提升到薪水更高的职位作为奖励
2. See also: During 1984, Remington spent a lot of money on advertising and promotion... Ask about special promotions and weekend deals too. promote

1. Last year Oxbridge graduates accounted for 41% of entrants to the civil service's fast stream to promotion.
   去年加入快速晋职队伍的新公务员中，牛津和剑桥大学的毕业生占了41%。
2. Last night's resounding victory over Birmingham City has virtually assured them of promotion
   昨晚大胜伯明翰城队实际上已确保他们能够晋级。
3. The advertising campaign will be supported by a PR and below-the-line promotion
   广告宣传活动将采取公关和线下促销的形式。
4. Carol is bolshy at not getting promotion.
   卡罗尔对没有升职很有情绪。
5. She is bucking for a promotion.
   她正在努力争取升职。
6. Anthony was a dead cert for promotion.
   安东尼肯定会得到提拔，那是板上钉钉的事儿。
7. His job is the discovery and promotion of new artists.
   他的任务就是发现并推出艺术新人。
8. He was told that, at 28, he was too old for fast-track promotion.
   有人告诉他，28岁的他已经过了破格提升的年龄。
9. She felt that her husband's unexpected promotion foreshortened his life.
   她感觉丈夫的意外升迁缩短了他的人生。
10. The promotion of a big release can inflate a film's final cost
    大规模发行所需的广告宣传会增加一部电影的最终成本。
11. She claimed she was repeatedly passed over for promotion
    她声称在晋升时自己被一次又一次地排除在外。
12. Celebrating a promotion, I took her to a posh hotel for a cocktail.
    为庆祝晋升，我带她去豪华饭店喝了鸡尾酒。
13. Consider changing jobs or trying for promotion.
    考虑换个工作或者争取升职。
14. During 1984, Remington spent a lot of money on advertising and promotion
    1984年，雷明顿公司在广告和促销方面花费了大量的资金。
15. Ask about special promotions and weekend deals too.
    也问一问特别促销和周末特价的情况。
16. 'You're a good worker, boy,' he told him. 'I'll recommend you for a promotion.'
    “你是个好员工，孩子，”他告诉他，“我将推荐你升职。”
17. She continually failed to gain promotion because of her sex
    她因为是女性而迟迟得不到晋升。
18. Independent thinkers are shunted into minor jobs or refused promotion.
    见解独到的人士要么被调往次要的岗位，要么就不被提升。
19. I didn't think through the consequences of promotion
    我没有把晋升带来的所有后果都考虑清楚。
20. Is his promotion evidence of the minorities 'advance, or mere tokenism?
    他的晋升是证明了少数族裔的进步，还是仅仅为了装点门面？
21. The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.
    那个职员升了级，加了薪。
22. Staying away so long from office will affect promotion.
    长期离职会影响晋级。
23. Ought promotion to go by seniority or by abilities?
    晋级应以年资为准，还是以能力为准？
24. His promotion has provoked much discussion among us.
    他的晋升引起了大伙儿沸沸扬扬的议论。
25. We had several discussions about his promotion.
    我们就他的晋升问题进行过数次评议。
26. Karl is in line for a promotion.
    卡尔将获得晋升。
27. These intellectuals have to bend themselves to the promotion of their technical titles.
    这些知识分子不得不为晋升技术职称全力以赴。
28. You can kiss that promotion goodbye, after the way you talked to her.
    你既然跟她这么谈了，你提升的事就别再想了。
29. He hasn't changed in spite of his promotion.
    他地位变了，但本色没有变。
30. Congratulations on your promotion!
    恭喜你高升了！

noun

1. act of raising in rank or position

2. the advancement of some enterprise
   1. his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career

   Synonym:    forwardingfurtherance

3. a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
   1. the packaging of new ideas

   Synonym:    publicitypromotional materialpackaging

4. encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

   Synonym:    furtheranceadvancement