promotable

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adjective

Able to be promoted; eligible for promotion.

OriginEnglish promote ← Latin prōmōtus ← Proto-Italic *moweō →
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Meanings

adjectivepromotable (comparative more promotable, superlative most promotable)

comparative more promotable · superlative most promotable · alternative promoteable

  1. Able to be promoted; eligible for promotion.

    “My job is to bring as many people to television as possible, but also to do things that are promotable and young,” he said.

    2007 October 4, Bill Carter, “Fictional Characters Get Virtual Lives, Too”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  5. Proto-Italic*pro-
  6. Latinprō-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  9. Proto-Italic*moweō
  10. Latinmoveō
  11. Latinprōmoveō
  12. Latinprōmōtus
  13. Englishpromote
  14. Englishpromotable

From promote + -able.

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APA

promotable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotable

MLA

“promotable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “promotable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/promotable.

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