Promoter
[prə'məʊtə] or [prə'motɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who is an active supporter and advocate.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.
(n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.
(n.) One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.
(n.) An informer; a makebate.
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Examples
- My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such incidents as these were not uncommon in Mr. Godfrey's large experience as a promoter of public charities. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Edison, then only twenty-one, had less business experience than the promoter, through whose manipulation he soon lost his financial interest in this early ticker enterprise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yet he was a great promoter of industry, and he knew perfectly that he must keep his goods and keep his authority. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That encouraged the promoters, and they issued a little circular describing the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A determined stand was made against it, and the promoters and their engineers, chief among whom was Stephenson, had to be very modest in their claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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