cross-promotion

noun

The advertising or publicising of products using other products or promotions.

OriginEnglish promotion ← Old French promocion ← Late Latin prōmotiō →
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncross-promotion (countable and uncountable, plural cross-promotions)

plural cross-promotions

  1. countableuncountableThe advertising or publicising of products using other products or promotions.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-der.?
  2. Proto-Italic*kruks /*krukis
  3. Latincrux
  4. Old Irishcros
  5. Old Norsekross
  6. Old Englishcros
  7. Middle Englishcross
  8. Middle Englishcros-
  9. Englishcross-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  11. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  12. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  13. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  14. Proto-Italic*pro-
  15. Latinprō-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  18. Proto-Italic*moweō
  19. Latinmoveō
  20. Latinprōmoveō
  21. Late Latinprōmotiō
  22. Old Frenchpromocion
  23. Englishpromotion
  24. Englishcross-promotion

From cross- + promotion.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

cross-promotion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-promotion

MLA

“cross-promotion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-promotion. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cross-promotion,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-promotion.

Source: cross-promotion on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.