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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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