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promoter
[ pruh-moh-ter ]
noun
- a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
- a person who initiates or takes part in the organizing of a company, development of a project, etc.
- a person who organizes and provides financial backing for a sporting event or entertainment.
- Chemistry. any substance that in small amounts is capable of increasing the activity of a catalyst.
- Also called collector. Metallurgy. a water-repellent reagent enhancing the ability of certain ores to float so that they can be extracted by the flotation process.
- Genetics.
- a site on a DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.
- a gene sequence that activates transcription.
- Obsolete. an informer.
promoter
/ əˈəʊə /
noun
- a person or thing that promotes
- a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking
- a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match
- chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity
- genetics a sequence of nucleotides, associated with a structural gene, that must bind with messenger RNA polymerase before transcription can proceed
promoter
- The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase.
Other Word Forms
- -·dzİ noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Eubank is quite the maverick, a boxer who never pinned himself down to one promoter or trainer for a significant length of time.
"I will fully take responsibility for that," says the star, who claims he was "backstage screaming" at police and promoters to get the lines moving.
Why has RFK Jr. put one of its promoters in charge of investigating it?
While other local punk rock promoters came and went, Goldenvoice became an essential champion of punk, metal, goth, industrial and other revolutionary sounds of the time.
Speaking on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1971, she said she started singing aged 12 after becoming interested in music because her father was a concert promoter.
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