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  • noun Plural form of promoter.

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Examples

  • A good rule of thumb when dealing with crowd estimates from self-serving promoters is to divide them by four or five -- you'll get a more accurate number that way. griftdrift |

    Why citizen journalism will always have a downside (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • The key now is negotiating with promoters from the two cites.

    USATODAY.com - The Montreal-Mexico Expos in 2004? 2003

  • Another aspect of this underground movement which we must fully realize for its courage, its self-sacrifice, the constant deadly danger that it affords to its promoters is the underground press.

    The Sacrifice, the Fall, and the Resurgence of Fighting France 1944

  • The ambition of the promoters is that as the supply of British - companies like my own, is forthcoming-and that supply is practically already assured = this organization will join hands with New Zealand and Australia and India and Africa, and then a theatrical company will be able to start from London, travelling over what will be an all-red route, playing continuously all around the world under their own flag.

    Empire and Drama 1914

  • The principal object of this society, as explained by its promoters, is to make it everywhere perceived and confessed, by the force of indisputable testimony, that the South is fighting for the preservation of slavery, while the North is fully committed to the destruction of the inhuman system; and they therefore urge that Englishmen should encourage the friends of abolition in America by all the means in their power.

    The Newly-formed Emancipation Society 1862

  • I called the promoters up at 4 a.m. asking them to find us a hotel.

    StAugustine.com 2010

  • Genevieve Bell, a one of Intel's longest-term promoters of design.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • I called the promoters up at 4 a.m. asking them to find us a hotel.

    StAugustine.com 2010

  • Company founders and their families and friends -- called "promoters" -- are allowed to buy more of their own companies 'shares and are often blamed for sharp price movements.

    All in the Family: $100 Billion 2007

  • They looked specifically at those that had "promoters" - DNA sequences that regulate genes, turning them "on" and "off" -- that appeared to be regulated by thyroid hormone.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

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