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PROMOTER , one who promotes (See also:Lat. promovere, to move forward), advances or forwards any See also:scheme, project or under-taking . The most See also:general specific sense in which the word is now used is that of a See also:person who takes the steps necessary to the See also:incorporation of a See also:joint-stock See also:company (see COMPANY) or to the passing of a private or See also:local See also:act of See also:parliament . In legal See also:history, a promoter was one who prosecuted offenders, originally as an officer of the See also:Crown, later as a See also:common informer; the See also:term is still used thus of the prosecutor in a suit in an ecclesiastical See also:court . |
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