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Prom vs Promotion - What's the difference?

prom | promotion |

As nouns the difference between prom and promotion

is that prom is a promenade concert while promotion is an advancement in rank or position.

prom

English

(wikipedia prom)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) a promenade concert
  • (British, abbreviation) promenade
  • (US) a formal ball held at a college near the end of the academic year

    • Derived terms

    * high school prom / high-school prom / highschool prom * promposal

    Anagrams

    * ----

    promotion

    English

    (wikipedia promotion)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advancement in rank or position.
  • (marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.
  • * 1995 , Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology (ISBN 079233471X), page 63:
    • By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
  • * 2008 , John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology (ISBN 1402062427), volume 4, page 3326:
    • In other arthropods, promotion'-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders ' promotion -remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and

    Derived terms

    * promotional