noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
passed over for promotion (= someone else has been given a higher job instead of me )
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This is the second time I’ve been passed over for promotion .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
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Middlesbrough won the game to clinch automatic promotion to the Premier Division.
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The London side needed three points for their automatic promotion challenge and dominated the first half.
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The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight.
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It was Charlton who stopped a winning streak at the end of last season which cost Leicester automatic promotion .
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Middlesbrough will gain automatic promotion if they beat Grimsby Town and Wolves on Saturday.
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Middlesbrough will share in the Premier League jackpot following automatic promotion .
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The Lancashire club are currently fourth in the division and only two points off an automatic promotion place.
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With two games in hand over all of the teams above them they are still well-placed for an automatic promotion spot.
special
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Having a special offer or promotion ?
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The spokeswoman says Disney has 50 to 70 toll-free numbers, which it turns on and off to coincide with special promotions .
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Some companies will help with display facilities and point of sale material, particularly for special promotions .
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Several other special promotions are planned during the meeting.
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There will also be special promotions each week and a disco featuring Downtown's Johnny Hero.
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He now earns a guaranteed series of a concerts and special promotion by the Young Concert Artists Trust.
■ NOUN
health
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I agree that the new health promotion package is far from ideal.
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These people are usually drawn from the employee assistance, human resources, health promotion , affirmative action or equal employment departments.
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This may include recommending that you attend one of the practice's health promotion clinics.
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In Cleveland heart surgery will be developed in Middlesbrough and more adolescent health promotion clinics will be set up.
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Preventive health care, such as childhood immunisation and health promotion through advice on lifestyle, is uncommon.
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A deliberate shift of focus for health promotion could encourage people in their 20s to give up smoking.
■ VERB
advertise
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By far the most important medium, in terms of total expenditure on advertising and sales promotion , is the press.
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In a fight with other video chains for market share, Blockbuster spent heavily on advertising and promotion .
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With a communication program that could be national advertising , sales promotion , trade shows, and press activities.
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Convenience stores engage in relatively little advertising and in few promotions , though they do feature some specials from time to time.
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They can be classified into two types: in-store strategies and advertising and promotions .
gain
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Middlesbrough will gain automatic promotion if they beat Grimsby Town and Wolves on Saturday.
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Will you help me to gain promotion ?
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Leighton joined Dundee in February, helping them gain promotion to the Premier Division before losing his place early this season.
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Middlesbrough need a win at Tranmere to gain promotion momentum after taking only two points from the last four games.
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He gradually took on full-time work in the same company, and gained three promotions within a year.
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Norfolk will receive the Division Six title, but North Bucks will still gain promotion as runner-up.
involve
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Wilkinson was involved in promotion playoffs when Watford lost to to Blackburn Rovers over two legs three seasons ago.
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But it will involve in-store promotions with retailers and free subscriptions to magazines, among other things, Powlick said.
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The restructured department involves the promotion of former commercial director Jamie Robertson-Macleod to director general.
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Both involve promotion from executive to manager in two sectors of the division.
offer
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Then, suddenly, the wife was offered an excellent promotion if she would relocate to San Francisco.
pass
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Peter Edwards looks at the blank space that now passes for a promotions policy.
win
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Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
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It's all about an ambitious executive out for revenge when he doesn't win the promotion he thinks he deserves.
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And his goals helped Oldham win promotion and reach the Rumbelows Cup final.
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Swindon will go wild if their ice hockey team win promotion to the Premier League.
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But I don't think we've won promotion just yet.
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Some reckon they're not tough enough to win promotion .
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United had won promotion all the way to the 1st division, the Milk Cup win capping a glorious but brief revival.
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Barnet won promotion to the Second Division after finishing runners-up to Cardiff City last season.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Civil service tests determine promotion in government jobs.
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Renee won a year's supply of chocolate as part of a promotion for the candy maker.
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Robbie Williams arrived in New York to do a week of promotion for his new record.
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She got a promotion last year.
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the promotion of solar energy
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the promotion of women's rights
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The author was signing copies of his new book as a part of the publisher's promotion campaign.
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They ran a sales promotion scheme in which a World Cup coin was given away with every four gallons of petrol purchased.
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What are my chances of promotion if I stay here?
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With the promotion came a $3,890 raise.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And more men are turning down promotion or relocation in order to give more time to their families.
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Having a special offer or promotion ?
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He pushed aside the civilian Junta using it only to give decent sanction to new promotions.
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The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress.
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Young males in particular were keener on high pay and promotion than older people, and less concerned with security or job satisfaction.