elimination vs promotion

elimination

noun
  • The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. 

  • The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. 

  • The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. 

  • The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. 

  • The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities. 

  • The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. 

  • The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. 

promotion

noun
  • Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank). 

  • An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand. 

  • Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity. 

  • Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.) 

  • An advancement in rank or position. 

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