PROMOTER

promoter, booster, plugger

(noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate

showman, promoter, impresario

(noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

promoter (plural promoters)

One who promotes, particularly with respect to entertainment events or goods.

(genetics) The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene.

An accelerator of catalysis that is not itself a catalyst.

Anagrams

• Portmore, premotor, protomer

Source: Wiktionary


Pro*mot"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle.

2. 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.

3. One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.

4. An informer; a makebate. [Obs.] Tusser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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6 June 2025

PUNGENCY

(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”


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