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promotion - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | promotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher position in organization |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, advocacy, backing, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, bump, elevation, encouragement, exaltation, furtherance, go-ahead*, hike, honor, improvement, jump, lift, preference, progress, raise, rise, step up, support, upgrade, aggrandizement, ennoblement, favoring, jump up, move up, preferment, prelation, upgrading |
| Antonyms: | demotion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | promotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | publicity |
| Synonyms: | advertising, advertising campaign, ballyhoo*, blurb*, buildup*, hard sell, hoopla*, hype*, notice, pitch, pizzazz*, plug*, press*, propaganda, public relations, publicity, puff*, puffery*, pushing, PR, press-agentry, promo, squib* |
| Antonyms: | silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advertisement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public notice of sale |
| Synonyms: | ad, announcement, bill, blurb, broadcast, circular, classified ad, commercial, communication, declaration, display, endorsement, exhibit, exhibition, flyer, literature, notice, notification, placard, plug, poster, proclamation, promotion, propaganda, publication, publicity, want ad, promulgation, squib, throwaway |
| Main Entry: | advertising |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public notice of sale; notices to increase consumer desire |
| Synonyms: | announcement, ballyhoo*, broadcasting, buildup, exhibition, exposition, hard sell, hoopla*, hype*, pitch, plug, proclamation, promotion, publicity, puff*, spread, PR, announcing, billing, blasting, displaying, exhibiting, posting, promo, promoting, screamer, squib |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advocacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support for an idea or cause |
| Synonyms: | advancement, aid, assistance, backing, defense, encouragement, justification, promotion, propagation, proposal, recommendation, urging, campaigning for, championing, pleading for, promulgation, upholding |
| Antonyms: | attack, opposition, protest |
| Main Entry: | buildup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, advertising, enlargement, escalation, expansion, gain, growth, heap, hype, increase, load, mass, plug, promotion, publicity, puff*, stack, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | decrease, destruction, reduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, easement, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, optimism, promotion, refreshment, relief, reward, softening, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging, consoling, enlivening, inspiritment, invigoration, reassurance, reassuring, relieving, shot in the arm, solacing |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | furtherance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, backing, championship, progress, progression, promotion, prosecution, pursuit, boosting, carrying-out |
| Antonyms: | curtailment, delay, hindrance, impediment, stoppage, blockage |
| Main Entry: | headway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, ground, improvement, increase, march, proficiency, progression, promotion, way, anabasis |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | hype |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extensive publicity |
| Synonyms: | advertising, buildup*, promotion, plugging |
| Antonyms: | secrecy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, reformation, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing, amelioration, meliorism, preferment, rectification, regeneration |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, harm, hurt, injury, diminishing, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
| Synonyms: | advance, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, stride, tour, voyage, way, amelioration, anabasis, evolvement, step forward, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | progression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, development, evolution, furtherance, growth, headway, improvement, promotion, amelioration, evolvement, forward march, getting ahead, giant strides, going forward, step forward |
| Main Entry: | propaganda |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information that is designed to mislead or persuade |
| Synonyms: | advertising, announcement, brainwashing*, doctrine, evangelism, handout, hogwash*, hype*, indoctrination, promotion, publication, publicity, agitprop, disinformation, implantation, inculcation, newspeak, promulgation, proselytism |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in salary or position |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, advance, augmentation, boost, bump, hike, increment, jump, leg*, promotion, rise, hold-up, jump-up, leg-up, move-up, raising, step-up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, drop, reduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advertisement |
| Synonyms: | announcement, circular, commercial, endorsement, flyer, notice, plug, promotion |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
| Synonyms: | accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | patronage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | support of a cause |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, backing, benefaction, championship, encouragement, financing, grant, guardianship, help, promotion, protection, recommendation, sponsorship, subsidy, support |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, detraction, opposition |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, enlargement, growth, hike, increment, inflation, multiplication, progress, promotion, raise, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, aggrandizement, doubling, heightening, intensification, intensifying, piling up, stacking up, step-up, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
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