PROMOTER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Promoter

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/prəmˈoʊtər/ Listen

noun

Promoter n.

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

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.)

(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.

See images of 'Promoter'

Etymology of 'Promoter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Promoter" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'tis with pain I am oblig'd to be civil to her, but I consider her Quality, her Husband was too an Alderman, your Friend, and a great Ay and No Man i' th' City, and a painful Promoter of ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn

... dig.; but what could you do with father? Roger, indeed, after making himself consistently disagreeable about the dance, would come down presently, with his fresh colour and bumpy forehead, as though he had been its promoter; and he would smile, and probably take the prettiest woman in to supper; and at two o'clock, just as they were getting into the swing, he would go up secretly to the musicians and tell them to play 'God Save ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... named the crossing of the Atlantic by steamships had become a common event. In 1840 the British and Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was organized, its chief promoter being Samuel Cunard, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose name has long been attached ...

— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various

... strength to be content with five per cent where ten was obtainable. Business was one thing, philanthropy another; and the enthusiasts who tried combining them were usually reduced, after a brief flight, to paying fifty cents on the dollar, and handing over their stock to a promoter presumably ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... metals, one man is enabled to heap to himself luxuries at the expense of the necessaries of his neighbour; a system admirably fitted to produce all the varieties of disease and crime, which never fail to characterize the two extremes of opulence and penury. A speculator takes pride to himself as the promoter of his country's prosperity, who employs a number of hands in the manufacture of articles avowedly destitute of use, or subservient only to the unhallowed cravings of luxury and ostentation. The nobleman, who employs the peasants of ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

More quotes...