promoted
- 1Simple past and past participle of promote.
The city promoted recycling through a series of public ads.
She was promoted to senior editor within two years.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the simple past in active clauses (the agency promoted the album) and the participle after have or be (he has been promoted twice). The passive is where the sports sense lives, a regional use in which a club is promoted to a higher league. Chess players also say a pawn is promoted to a queen, and chemists speak of a catalyst being promoted.
promoted is a form of promote
promote, verb: To encourage people to support someone or something, adopt an action or attitude, or buy something, including through advertising and publicity. Full entry
- Spelling
- promote → promoted: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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