Definition of "promoter" []

• One that promotes, especially an active supporter or advocate. (noun)
• A financial and publicity organizer, as of a boxing match or an artistic performance. (noun)
• Genetics The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Even if you're a professional down the road and a promoter is asking you to stir things up, you're not going to do it?"
• "John Barclay smiled as he lifted his lame foot to a fat leather chair in front of him and said, "That was what we call the promoter's profit.""
• "The promoter is putting on a series of quality promotions lately, this Mannheim fight dovetailing with the second leg in Liverpool on the same evening, when Nathan Cleverly, Matthew Macklin, Kell Brook and James DeGale move closer to world title shots."