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

Verb

To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.

To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.

To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.

To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.

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To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.

To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.

To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.

To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.

To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.

to spread a table

* Tennyson

Boiled the flesh, and spread the board.

(slang) To open one’s legs.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), :

This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ: the way she moves has got to be good news, can't get loose till I feel the juice— suck and spread , bitch, yeah bounce for me baby.

* 1991 , (Tori Amos), (Me and a Gun) :

Yes I wore a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you, your friends, your father, Mr Ed?

* 2003 , (Outkast), "Spread" (from the album ):

I don't want to move too fast, but / Can't resist your sexy ass / Just spread', ' spread for me; / (I can't, I can't wait to get you home)