Promote vs Fashionista - What's the difference?
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As a verb promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank. As a noun fashionista is a person who creates or promotes high fashion, a fashion designer or fashion editor.
promote English
Verb
( promot)
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
To encourage, urge or incite
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To elevate to the above league.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
Antonyms
* (raise rank) demote
* (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose
Related terms
* promotion
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fashionista English
Noun
( en noun)
A person who creates or promotes high fashion, a fashion designer or fashion editor.
* 2008 , "High Style: Are you a Porter person?" Toronto Star , 17 Jul., p. L1,
- Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.
A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends.
Derived terms
* recessionista
See also
* frugalista
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989 (rev. Sept., 2002).
* "Mirror, Mirror: How Stylish People Don't Describe Themselves" by Penelope Green. "New York Times", Section 9, Page 1, Column 1, Style Desk, July 4, 1999.
English words suffixed with -ista
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