Crossword clues for promoter
promoter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promoter \Pro*mot"er\, n.
One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.
--Boyle.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.
One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.
An informer; a makebate. [Obs.]
--Tusser.(Genetics) The region of a DNA molecule to which RNA polymerase binds to initiate the process of transcription, i.e. the synthesis of RNA whose sequence is determined by the sequence of the DNA adjacent to the promoter site; also, the sequence of bases in the DNA at such a promoter site.
(Chem.) A substance that increases the activity of a catalyst, when present in small quantity in the reaction mixture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who promotes" (the interest of someone), "supporter," agent noun from promote, and also from Old French promoteur and directly from Medieval Latin promotor. Specific financial sense of "one who leads in forming a company" is from 1876; sense of "one who organizes sporting or entertainment events" is attested from 1936.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who promotes, particularly with respect to entertainment events or goods. 2 (context genetics English) The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene. 3 An accelerator of catalysis, though not itself a catalyst.
WordNet
n. someone who is an active supporter and advocate [syn: booster, plugger]
a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments [syn: showman, impresario]
Wikipedia
In genetics, a promoter is a region of DNA that initiates transcription of a particular gene. Promoters are located near the transcription start sites of genes, on the same strand and upstream on the DNA (towards the 5' region of the antisense strand). Promoters can be about 100–1000 base pairs long.
The Promoter Artisan is one of the 16 role variants of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves. David Keirsey originally described the Promoter role variant; however, a brief summary of the personality types described by Isabel Myers contributed to its development. Promoters correlate with the ESTP Myers-Briggs type.
An entertainment promoter in industries like music, wrestling, and sports is a person or company in the business of marketing and promoting live events such as concerts/ gigs, sports events, professional wrestling (wrestling events), festivals, raves, and nightclubs.
Promoter may refer to:
- Promoter (entertainment), one who makes arrangements for events
- Tour promoter, individuals or companies responsible for organizing a live concert tour or special event performance
- Corporate promoter, an entity who takes active steps in the formation, organization, or financing of a corporation
- Promoter (genetics), a regulatory region of DNA usually located upstream of a gene, providing a control point for regulated gene transcription
- Promoter (catalysis), an accelerator of a catalyst, though not a catalyst itself
- Promoter (role variant), one of the sixteen personality types of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- Promoter (Catholic church), an office of the Catholic Church such as Promoter of the Laity, Promoter of Peace and Justice, or Promoter of the Faith (also known as the Devil's advocate)
- Promotor (Dutch, Belgian, or German academia), a full professor of a Dutch, Flanders, or German university who formally promotes a PhD candidate to doctor, and is (formally) the principal supervisor during the doctoral research.
- The Promoter, also known as The Card
- The Promoter (2012 film)
- Promotor (typeface), a typeface supplied bij Joh. Enschede
Usage examples of "promoter".
The promoter was attired wholly in blackcloak, cap, doublet, and hose were of sable.
Persia or elsewhere, I strongly feel that the time has assuredly come when it is incumbent upon every conscientious promoter of the Cause to bestir himself and undertake in consultation with the friends in his locality such measures of publicity as will lead to the gradual awakening of the conscience of the civilized world to what is admittedly an ignominious manifestation of a decadent age.
A promoter minus a personalty or a gimmick starved to death, and he was a long way from starving.
These are the same promises heard when basketball promoters lobbied for the building of the Miami Arena, which has not exactly revitalized the downtown area.
Walton, a natural promoter as well as a born merchant, overwhelmed the nominal disadvantages of time and place with the sheer fervency of his pursuit of the underserved consumers who still inhabited the Ozarks.
Nay, it should be realized by every judicious promoter of the Faith that at such an early stage in the evolution and crystallization of the Cause such discriminating and precautionary measures are inevitable and even necessary if the nascent institutions of the Faith are to emerge triumphant and unimpaired from the present welter of confused and often conflicting interests with which they are surrounded.
James, never common Jim or Jimmy, had gone into the management side of the music business when he had turned respectable, figuring that bands come and go but there will always be promoters around to rip them off.
Perhaps, as she flicked through the financial papers, looking for a man who would marry her and carry her away to a world of timeless prosperity untouched by fashion, she noticed the features of young Nole Whard, charismatic ecology-conscious promoter of biotechnical artefacts, whose company, Bionics Inc.
Financing a new railway usually ineant its promoters would set up secretly controlled construction companies, then negotiate inflated contracts with themselves, collecting hefty profits at both ends of each deal.
Although the whole thing is sold out, he twisted the arms of the promoters to say they would let him have one extra ticket, and he wanted one of our Stewards, or one of the Jockey Club department heads, or me myself, to go along conspicuously, so that Filmer would know he was being closely watched and would refrain from any sins he had in mind.
The promoters of the concert had made their money on advance sales, and with that in the bank, they did not care how many freebees ripped them off for admissions.
Girls I was playing in Kentucky in 1955 when a promoter told me about a vocalist named Mary Ann Fisher who was gigging around Louisville and Fort Knox.
An occasional boxing promoter who knew Louis in Klamath Falls in the late 1920s.
Whatever the deal between Hubert Warrendale, genius of finance, and Cedric Malvin, successful promoter, it meant money.
Anyone who expected to find Malvin here, still alive, would mistake Cranston for the dead promoter.