Promote and Recruit

Promote

Promote verb - To move higher in rank or position.

Recruit and promote are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recruit" instead a verb "Promote".

Recruit

Recruit verb - To provide with a paying job.
Usage example: thousands of recent immigrants were recruited to build the nation's rail system

Promote and recruit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Promote" instead a verb "Recruit".

Common collocations

character promote character recruit character
people promote people recruit people
way promote way recruit way
characters promote characters recruit characters

Both words in one sentence

  • Black Knight You also recruit Sun and Mintz, two members of the Canaan Black Knights, though Sun doesn't start out in the Black Knight class and has to promote from her mediocre Rook Knight class first.
    Source: Black Knight
  • Prestige Class Tabula Rasa uses this - players begin as the Recruit, giving them lightning bolts and basic firearms and armor training, and promote at level 5 into either Specialist (support) or Soldier (front line combat), and promote twice more from those two classes.
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