Promoter (disambiguation)
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Promoter may refer to:
- In business, a promoter is a particular type of entrepreneur who's focus is on promotion (ie. marketing) of individuals or ideas
- (ie. as described by socioeconomists such as Ludwig von Mises).
- In entertainment, a promoter is a person who makes arrangements and typically deals with financial compensation for one or more parties to an event.
- A corporate promoter is a person who causes a corporation to be formed.
- In biology, the promoter of a gene — the section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of that gene.
- An accelerator of a catalyst, though not a catalyst itself
- In the development of cancer, a promoter is a substance which can act to potentiate the cancer causing effects of an initiator. Typical examples are diethylstilbestrol, dietary fat and cigarette smoke (a promoter and an initiator.)